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Grown Ds back home but there isn't room with our little ones.

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stripesanddots · 09/11/2023 12:32

When I was 16 I had a relationship with an older man who had a partner and child I didn't know about at the time.
I got pregnant and had a little boy as I turned 17.

I still lived at home, it wasn't planned and I didn't know I was pregnant until I was quite far gone so instead of adoption which my parents encouraged his Dad and partner brought him up.

He was happy but I spent a lot of his life regretting that I didn't keep him and struggling with the loss although I still had contact with ds at weekends so I was still part of his life.
I later met dh and we had dc, who then had their own rooms.
Ds is now 23 but at 17 he fell out with his dad and step mum and moved in with dh and I and our dc, so I put our dc in together and gave ds a bedroom.
At first I was delighted to have ds back but he's now 23 and has no plans to ever leave.

He has a job but it doesn't pay well, for his own sake I'd like him to make plans to try and make it on his own, he's been back here 6 years and it's been lovely but I'd like him to be a grown up now and plan his future without making him feel unwanted.

Our own dc were also only a baby and toddler when he moved in and as they're the opposite sex we really need his room eventually which sounds terrible but when we had the dc we had no idea Ds would be moving in.
A bigger house is not an option as we both work flat out to pay this mortgage.

OP posts:
Honeychickpea · 11/11/2023 16:32

HollaHolla · 11/11/2023 14:09

Did you mean to be so rude?

Seriously, though - it wasn’t included in the quote a previous poster made.

Heaven help your children, if you are for kicking them out as soon as they have a job. This is a difficult situation; and the OP wants to maintain an already fragile relationship. It’s not easy, and many others have given helpful advice without being patronising.

The "child" in question is 23. Get real.

Treesandsheepeverywhere · 11/11/2023 16:40

Sounds like you're blaming him for not moving out. But you've had 6 years to guide him and help him be in a position to move out.
If you haven't had the conversations about him moving out, it's easy to see why he's not thinking about it.

Its not too late as you have a couple of years to start the conversations and help him have a deposit for a rental or he could go into an apprenticeship of something he enjoys.

MCal174 · 12/11/2023 12:17

This.

Righttherights · 12/11/2023 14:31

Sorry but a child is always your child. He’s probably got abandonment issues as it is. Not going to look good if you ask him to leave.
Any way of moving any internal stud walls to rearrange space? We did that. Not expensive.

Honeychickpea · 12/11/2023 17:17

Righttherights · 12/11/2023 14:31

Sorry but a child is always your child. He’s probably got abandonment issues as it is. Not going to look good if you ask him to leave.
Any way of moving any internal stud walls to rearrange space? We did that. Not expensive.

Edited

He's not a child. He's 23.

Zooeyzo · 12/11/2023 17:26

He maybe saving for a deposit seeing as he works hard but doesn't earn much. Considering his childhood I wouldn't ask him to leave if I were you.

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