Does your family do your head in (I'm not a chav- just adore colloquial abuse!!!

[Pisceangirl]

I've recently given up my job & friends to live in a foreign land with my family. My boyfriend will not be able 2 join me until April 2007 and my friends will probabaly only be able to visit me on special occasions.
Is it normal at 24 to feel a distance to one's family?!

[pimlico]

we need more information - why did you decide to go with your family? You are obviously feeling homesick and isolated without your friends and boyfriend. Also, at 24, why are you still living with your family? More info!

[Pisceangirl]

OK! I've got a degree & had a lot of prospects in UK ...but felt like I missed my family for a long time since they went off to another country. I always wanted my parents 2 b active grandparents... My BF says he'll follow me..It's NZ so an amazin country to explore anyway- long way from UK so difficult decision! Anyway...very torn and starting to realise that I've grown apart from them and need 2 validate my own life as an adult without their influence!

[freak_unique]

Ah i see what you mean Piscean girl! Well i left home about 2 years ago used to live in Tamworth and moved to Kidderminster to be with a partner - now the distance is about an hour to an hour and half drive! Before i left id became quite distant with my mum stopped telling her stuff and she just started annoying me moaning that shes found things like ketchup etc under my bed - now this frustrated me even more she must have been LOOKING under my bed for something to have found it?so we had rows all the time. Anyways i started living away unofficially and she wanted to know if i was coming back as they only lived in a 2 bedroom house and needed an exchange as my brother was hitting the age he needed his own room (he was 2-3 at the time) so i said i wouldnt be and to give him my room.So she spent months trying to get me to come home and then finally realised i wasnt. Anyways the relationship ended and i carried on living there as friends.Got on so much better with my mum now i have left...to the extent that when i felt so lonely i just wanted to go home and missed them all so much especially my 4 year old brother! But then id visit them for a weekend and theyd annoy me hah! life hey? I think as we get older we lose the need to be constantly living with parents and sometimes in some cases people cant live with there parents anymore because they clash. i think its perfectly normal what you are feeling, its like you miss your family so you go to be with them...and then you miss friends,the bf etc - i think you need an equal balance of both :)

[Pisceangirl]

Cheers, Freak_unique! Nice to know I'm not the only one! :)

[freak_unique]

No problems just dont even get me started on my real dad though!!! (hahah) :)