There are many people who are being forced to return to their parents’ house after being independent for a long time. The economic and labor crisis, the reduction in wages and jobs and the growing number of unemployed mean that more and more people are unable to afford rent or a mortgage and have to return to the family home.
Back home
Today there are cases of couples with children who have to seek help at the home of one of their parents. This causes family chaos that can lead to multiple arguments because it is actually the breakup of not one, but two homes.
In the best of cases, it is a single person with no other family responsibilities who has to return to live at their parents’ house. But in any case, it is a traumatic step for both parties, which radically transforms the family ties established up to now. It is still considered a step backwards. The fact that a person has to give up an independence that may have taken them years to achieve together with the loss of a job ends up in many cases in a state of serious decline.
See the bright side
But although we cannot change the crisis situation we are experiencing, or recover the job we have lost, or receive an adequate salary for our expenses, we can see the positive side of returning to the family home.
Obviously you will encounter many daily complications, derived from your years of independent living and the rhythm of life that your parents have created while living alone. Problems with schedules, meals, lack of privacy… It is a situation in which all family members have to do their best.
The most important thing is that neither you nor your family consider your return as a failure and that you take it as a temporary situation. A transitory state from which multiple benefits can be obtained for both your professional and personal future. Adapting to the new rules of coexistence can bring you closer to your family in a different way, because in the time that you have been apart you have all evolved.
Professionally, it could be the moment you were waiting for to dedicate yourself to what you really like. Keep in mind that living in your parents’ house you cannot bear the pressure of paying rent, bills and other expenses that are generated. That pressure is what most of the time makes us accept jobs that support us financially but do not contribute anything to us on a personal level.
Take advantage of this moment in which you do not have financial burdens to develop interesting projects and head towards your future with a slower step, but more determined, betting on creativity and new opportunities.
The situation is complicated and the crisis continues to cause many family dramas. But it’s time to look on the bright side, because every change creates new opportunities, and this is going to be your time to do things better than ever.