Dating When You Live at Home

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Filed under: Friends & Family, Singlehood , Dating Trends, Real Stories, Match

Posted May 7th 2009 12:00AM

by Maggie Kim, for Match.com's Happen magazine

Dating When You Live at Home Faced with rising rents, school loans to pay off, high unemployment rates and a tight job market, more and more adults are moving back home with their parents -- about 18 million between the ages of 18 and 34, according to the U.S. Census Bureau. While living rent-free has its advantages, navigating the dating scene can certainly get tricky when your folks are in the room next to yours. Cuddling on the couch with a new girlfriend or boyfriend? Awkward at best. And is sex even a possibility with the 'rents around? We asked four live-at-home daters to reveal their biggest hassles when it comes to living at home; then we got Andra Medea, author of Conflict Unraveled: Fixing Problems at Work and in Families, and Susan Newman, social psychologist and author of Nobody's Baby Now: Reinventing Your Adult Relationship With Your Mother and Father, to step in with some solutions.

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Maggie Kim is a freelance writer who frequently contributes to Happen magazine.

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akasha20092

Jun 10th 2009 @ 11:47PM report

nowadays thats called being a
"loser".

Eric

Jul 27th 2009 @ 11:45PM report

Now, what if that person has to live at home because one parent is battling a terminal illness?

I had planned to start living on my own when I was at least in my early 30s...but all of that changed when my mother was diagnosed with ALS (also known as Lou Gehrig's Disease) twelve years ago, just six months after my grandmother passed away. I have to help my father take care of my mother, who can no longer walk, and requires help to stand upright. I have not been in a relationship since before my mother was taken ill, and that's the main reason why I have to live at home. I now have to help support my parents; my father had to retire five years ago so he could stay home with my mother.

I have to go out of town to go out on a date now, since the St. Louis area has some of the most closed-minded single women in the United States.

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