• TheDemonBuer@lemmy.world
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    2 months ago

    I think one of the best things that ever happened to me was my step dad gradually pushing me out of the house when I was around 20. It taught me how to take care of myself. Of course, it’s taken me 20 years and I still haven’t quite figured it out. It would have been better if they had prepared me, taught me some of the essential skills. That’s the real problem, it’s not that parents in America make their kids leave the nest, it’s that they don’t prepare them properly for it first. I feel like I could have done a lot more with my adult life if I hadn’t had to spend most of it slowly learning how things worked, through trial and error.