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I want my adult child to move out of my house

58 replies

yojylloh · 22/10/2013 12:25

I can't cope with having my 35 year old son living in my house anymore. He hasn't got a job, he drinks way too much, I have to fund his car, mobile, drink and cigarettes, he hides up in his room when I'm at home and when I broach the subject of him moving out he explodes at me. I think he may have bipolar disorder and I also think he needs medical help such an anti-depressants but he refuses to go to the doctor's. I understand it is not easy living at home as an adult but I feel so anxious in my own home. Recently I got so upset at how aggressive he was being towards me, I asked my daughter to come over and ask him to please move out for a few days so I can recover my equilibrium. he refused and was very defensive and defiant. However, the shock treatment worked in that he has an interview for a possible job as a hospital porter and addresses me politely. But I still need him to move out. I don't want him to move to a foyer though where he will mix with petty thieves and drug users - at least he is not taking drugs or doing anything illegal. What can I do?

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MrsCakesPremonition · 28/11/2013 00:45

Normally people challenge the facts in the OP rather blackening the OPs character without evidence.

Maryz · 28/11/2013 00:45

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BillyBanter · 28/11/2013 00:53

Curby, under what circumstances do you think the OP should not ask this person, son or not, to move out? It doesn't sound healthy for either of them, wherever one wishes to lay the blame for that.

Curby · 28/11/2013 01:03

Laughable.... #MaXLoLz.... better things to do.....

BuntyPenfold · 28/11/2013 01:08

I'm quite worried about you yojylloh

You seem unhappy and Curby seems to know your circumstances and bear a grudge towards you.

Maryz · 28/11/2013 01:11

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TotallyBursar · 28/11/2013 01:18

See that makes you think someone found an open log in.

Hopefully you can get support for yourself op, without someone to help you trying to deal with a situation like this is going to be even harder. Just so you know there is a legal section here as well. Advice from the charities mentioned above may be more immediate than other routes. I don't want to speculate about health needs etc on the basis of so little information, but if anyone refuses to seek help you can't do it for them & you and your other family are as important as your son. Enabling this situation is not helping him either.
Tough as it is, he needs to do this now not you. Take care of yourself.

flow4 · 28/11/2013 05:57

yoj, I think the same as Maryz. It makes me worried for you. Please get some RL help, sooner rather than later.

KepekCrumbs · 28/11/2013 06:24

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wakemeupnow · 28/11/2013 06:39

Perhaps Yoj is actually the daughter/ sister who is wanting to support her mother in this situation ? The son corby is resentful of her interference.... Confused

Either way this family needs mediation and help so they can each communicate their needs in RL and come to some kind of resolution... I hope your son got the job Yoj

wannabestressfree · 28/11/2013 06:54

I hope everything is ok

If this is your son also posting I hope it shames you into at least treating your mother better. How horrible for her and what a vile atmosphere in her own home....

Roshbegosh · 28/11/2013 07:17

OP you need to think of this situation as something you are part of and are keeping going. The problem is not just him, it is also you. Sorry and I don't mean to be unkind but you are creating and enabling his behaviour here, you are keeping him as a baby. Why? What do you get out of this?

SatinSandals · 28/11/2013 07:35

If you have got your son posting on here then you really have even more difficulties than explained in the first place, and they seem bad enough.
I would go along to CAB and seek advice. It is time, long past time, that he stood on his own two feet and you need to stop enabling him with your funding.

flow4 · 28/11/2013 08:36

The OP said 'my son', and we all assumed a mother, but yojylloh could also be the father.
It doesn't matter which. Whatever the details, yoj is living with a grown-up son and has had enough... It's time to make changes, and they'll probably be good for everyone in the family, in the end.

Curby · 29/11/2013 12:20

Hysterical online knitting circle! ha ha

BillyBanter · 29/11/2013 16:33

It's taken you 16 hours to think of that?

Bit slow even for a 35 year old teenager.

SatinSandals · 29/11/2013 16:54

I was just ignoring it, you can see what the parent has to put up with, sad really.

flow4 · 29/11/2013 17:56

You haven't denied being the stay-at-home man in the OP, Corby... So go on: tell us what's going on from your perspective...?

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Birdsbeesandtrees · 15/06/2017 17:13

What the hell is going on here ? Confused

EyeHalveASpellingChequer · 15/06/2017 17:18

he is not taking drugs

Alcohol and tobacco are drugs.

WinifredAtwellsOtherPiano · 15/06/2017 17:21

THIS IS A ZOMBIE THREAD.
I have no idea what Alichi posted.
I do wonder what happened to the OP and his/her son/brother though.

GreenTulips · 15/06/2017 17:22

This thread is 4 years old?