How did you become independent after living with parents all your life?
Currently living with parents but I'd like to know how to become independent so I can fall back on that knowledge in future
If location is relevant, I live in Australia
I mean, independence is just doing things for yourself. Even if you're living with parents, you can start with these things:
Bonus if you start doing some of these for your parents, too. I'm sure they'll appreciate it!
Nice try, OP's parent
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There's something uniquely different to not live together with other people anymore. For everyone I've talked to, including myself, living alone for a while was an incredibly important experience, not replaceable by simply "doing things for yourself".
Only when there's no one around can you truly figure out what you would want yourself. As long as there's immediate interaction, just even being seen doing something, there's some kind of influence on our psyche by this interaction. There's just some large difference to when you're completely independent/alone for a while.
Being able to do stuff like you say is fine and makes sense and is good preparation, but it's just not in the same ballpark at all.
Oh yeah, undoubtedly it's not the same. But getting practiced at the essential activities means that it's not so overwhelming when you end up by yourself.
I already do cook most of my own food especially since I use a food tracking app to help loose weight
And I need to learn to keep my room clean because when I clean it, it eventually becomes dirty again