What age did you leave home?

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Since I’ve had my first child, I’ve been feeling a bit resentful towards my own parents. My NarcM kicked me out as they didn’t like my partner at the time (I was 17). My partner was an average guy, had a job etc. No wrongdoings, NarcM simply didn’t like me spending so much time with someone else. Since then I’ve never returned. I never lived with my DF either as he moved across the country when I was a baby. Ironically they both have partners who I don’t get on with. They met when I was 14+ so not step parents to me.

Anyway, sorry for the long intro! Most of my peers and colleagues left home around 21-25. They were allowed to save for house deposits, cars etc. I feel sad that I didn’t get that advantage but I’m going to channel that into supporting my DD more than my own parents did. What about you?

11 (boarding school, irreparably damaged our relationship), 18 (university followed by dropping out and getting a job, couldn't face the contempt), and 28 after breaking my leg and living with them for two years while the incredible mess I'd made of my life got straightened out. That was when we sorted out what being patents and child actually meant. Happiness of a sort at last.

21. After uni.

17, couldn’t wait to get out, never regretted it!

I was 17, I didn’t get on with my parents so I couldn’t wait to move out, I lived in a tiny room in a shared house before going to uni the following year.

When I got married at 19 ! not married to him now

17 as well. Rented a room in a shared house while I did my a levels. Then went to uni, met now DH and never moved back home.

Went to Uni at 18, came home at 21 and became my mum's carer. She was diagnosed with early onset dementia while I was in my final year of Uni. Stayed with her and cared for her until she passed away, when I was 31. So I only moved out of the family home then. Not so much out of choice though!

I moved out to university a month or two after I turned 18. Never moved back home, except for about 6 months while my dad was ill.

18

12 for boarding school, 18 for university, 21 when I graduated & got a full time job.

25. It was too late but I had very strict religious parents who thoroughly disapproved of me going into rented accommodation.

If I'm lucky enough to have children I hope to encourage them to go for uni.

Had just turned 19 rented a flat near my job.

If you don't count university, when I was only home in the vacs, I was 22 - basically as soon as I was established in a permanent full time job. I rented a house with my boyfriend - £400 PCM. We were only earning about £4.00 an hour each so money wasn't abundant, but we bought a place a couple of years later which, in those days, was much cheaper than renting.

16, it was 1974 and I was pregnant. Told to have an abortion or leave home - what will the neighbours think!
My lovely oldest child is 48 and so worth leaving home for!

At 18 to go to teacher training college. Moved back in for a few months when I got a job then promptly got married at 22 and moved into our own home. This is back when dinosaurs ruled the earth

18 but I wish it had been earlier.

17, for the last six months of my A Levels, as my parents wouldn't have me in the house any more due to having had sex with my boyfriend of 3 years! When I proved them all wrong by going to uni, doing well and not becoming a single mother of 10 on the dole forever, they were surprised that I didn't fancy moving back home after graduating...

Boarding school at 16, uni at 18 (don’t count either as home for holidays). PhD until 25 in a flat owned by DParents so I guess 25. Saved for a deposit rather than paying rent as a postgraduate (did offer to pay!). So yes, very spoilt in having all that support. And then emotional support ever since when required!

I left at just turned 18, to live with a man 12 years older than me (I'd met him at 17) who was an ex heroin addict current crack addict I'd met while working at the chemists where he collected his methadone. I was never an angel child but good grief, this was an odd move even for me- and I'll never really forgive them for the fact they let me go without any fight with a man who'd clearly groomed me with drugs. (And they knew his history, etc)
I was very young, naive and immature, completely unable to run my own home and work full time and be a grown up; I'd had no life experience and my main source of income was my pocket money ffs.

I was only 2 years older than my dd is now, and she'd have to step over my cold corpse to leave home in those circumstances with someone like that.

I grew up in a new build council house which had 2 small bedrooms and then one absolutely tiny box room, big enough for a single bed and literally nothing else! Those houses (on my mums estate) were absolutely lovely but not built with long term living with a family in mind.
Left to move in with dp at 18, my brother and sister needed separate rooms and there was literally nowhere for me to sleep anymore. Well, unless I fancied top and tailing with my 5 year old sister
It’s a lovely house but there was no room for me anymore and I didn’t have many other options.
Thankfully it worked out!
The fact I mentioned it was a council house was not me being a snotty about living in one which was poky but more about the fact that they rather annoyingly don’t seem to factor in that families need space to grow!

I was 21. Lots of my friends 'left for uni' but they still had a room at home and came back for the holidays so they had a gradual leaving home rather than one day this was home and the next it wasnt.

That sounds really sad OP

I left home at 18, as did my 3 brothers, but that was for a purpose- 2 of us went to uni and the others to work, so it was a happy transition that was in our interests. Always felt my parents had my back but would have hated living with them once I was an adult.

21 when I got my first mortgage. (1993)

21. I shared a room with my younger sister who had to-scale drawings of how the bedroom would be arranged when I left for at least three years prior to that. To her relief, I didn't come back.