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Post by jachkldavis on Dec 25, 2003 19:01:04 GMT -5
I moved out when I was 16 for about 6 months. I moved back in with my parents at 17. After graduation I left for US Navy bootcamp in Orlando (when I joined that was the only place for women) I served 8 years and met my hubby. I think that joining the Navy was the best thing that I ever did. I cant imagine where I would be if I wouldnt have made the choice to enlist.  Christine |
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Post by catseye on Dec 26, 2003 9:46:14 GMT -5
OH BOY!!! This will be fun!!
I HATED school with a passion... When I was 13 I met a guy who was 20, and we dated throughout my teens... When I was 16 I dropped out of school... When mom found out (took the school over a month to figure out they were never talking to mom on the phone about my absenses!!) she kicked me out of the house... I moved in with my then boyfriend, and married him a few days after my 18th b-day...
So long story short I was 16 when I moved out...
cat
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Post by kstquilter on Dec 26, 2003 22:39:28 GMT -5
wow, there are alot of us who moved out as kids. if adhd wasn't genetic i might think it had to do with how old you were when you moved out!
i didn't do the party thing in college. i got that out of my system after coming home from college! i rarely drink now, guess i really did get it out of my system then!
karen
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Post by LitlBaa on Dec 27, 2003 2:14:31 GMT -5
I first moved out at 18 and moved in with my boyfriend who was five years older but who was still married and had three little kids. Moved home when that broke up, then later married him (dumb, dumb, dumb!), divorced, moved back home...
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Post by on_edge on Dec 30, 2003 20:16:18 GMT -5
Moved out at 19, moved home a year later for 6 months until I married ex and moved out again. Divorced ex at age 28, moved back in to go to college, and moved out to marry dh at 30. Will live in my car than move back home again since Mother didn't want me back after I moved the first time.
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Post by skylarkragtop on Dec 30, 2003 20:52:15 GMT -5
Got out of HS, did one semsester of college. Barely. Went to technical school. Came home to dinner one night and Mom and Dad said "what would you think if we bought a house upstate?". I said I didnt want to go, and leave my girlfriend behind. They said "well, you'll have to see her on weekends because we did it, and you'll be staying with your grandmother until you finish technical school, then you can come upstate, get a job as a mechanic, and go back to the city to spend all your money on your girlfriend". I stayed with Grandma, messed up school, but they made me graduate anyway. I went upstate, and at three AM on the third day I packed my car, left a note saying I wasnt coming back, pushed my car out of the driveway (stealth mode) and started it up as I got down to the bottom of the hill. Never looked back. Showed up at my girlfriend's house at six. Everyone was asleep. Told her I'd get a job, find a place to live, and that I'd never leave her again. Got a job that day. Talked my grandmother into putting me up again. She never called my parents to tell them where I was. She felt that was up to me. At some point before I moved out of her house, she told my mother that I'd done more growing up on my own than I ever had under their roof. I was 18 when I left home. Three years later, I married my girlfriend. Four years later we bought a house. Ten years and much infertility later, we lost our first son. Seventeen months later, we had our second son, who will be two in February. Next October we'll have been together 20 years. February marks out 16th wedding anniversary.
It feels like a blink. It's hard to believe it's been that long.
SR
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Post by gabrielsmom on Jan 5, 2004 18:10:43 GMT -5
I moved out of my parents home at the ripe old age of 26....I guess i didn't feel a need to move out before then. My son was 3 months old when i finally left home.....
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Post by camismom on Jan 6, 2004 13:48:29 GMT -5
Well, count me another member of the dummy group...  I was 18 when I moved out of mom's house. I graduated in June of '87, and married two months later in August. I had dated my first husband throughout my Junior and Senior year and got engaged Christmas Eve my Senior year. Instead of basking in the last part of high school and all the fun that comes with it, I was planing a wedding! Anyway, I was 18 when I married Cami's dad, he was 22. Seven years later (seven-year itch maybe?) at age 25, I had grown up, yet he hadn't. Miserable, and realizing my whole life was ahead of me, I divorced him. Only one year later (hey, by then I knew what I wanted ;D) I married my present husband. I have never looked back. March will be nine years! But at any rate, I couldn't wait to get out from under Mom. I did at 18, and have never gone back! |
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Post by camismom on Jan 6, 2004 13:50:14 GMT -5
Correction on my previous post....
Cami's dad was 24 when I married him. He is six years older than me. I was 18, he was 24. Seven years later I was 25, yet he was still 24 with the maturity of far less than that. ;D
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Post by loveforeric on Jan 29, 2004 22:45:41 GMT -5
I lived my grandparents until I married DH at age 23. We had our first of four a year later and have never looked back... Wow... 11yrs. together, almost 10yrs. married... Christina  |
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Post by Honeysmom on Feb 2, 2004 1:45:43 GMT -5
Gosh, I am in the young group too. I left at 16, but according to my mom (like someone else here) I stayed until I was 18. Her memory is a little off.
Looking back I was probably the classic ODD child/teen. I started dating my first "real" boyfriend at 14, he was 18. We dated all through HS and my dad hated it. I guess that is why I left/was asked to leave. Leaving was not on good terms and did not get better for about 6 years.
Got engaged at 17, set date, got dumped at 20, on Valentine's day (JERK!!) b/c he announced that he was engaged to someone else. Met DH 3 months later married him the day after Thanksgiving, had Honey a 5 months later. And I woundn't change a gosh darn thing. I could not have been more lucky!! ;D
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