I honestly don't see it as being that bad. As long as you've a healthy relationship, boundaries and aren't just living there jobless and doing nothing.
I know a guy that lives with his mom. She's single, he helps out around the house. Rent's cheap. Meals you don't have to cook. And a roommate whose **** you've already put up with for the entirety of your life so you're already used to it/know how to cope. Really, it's a win-win.
My dad never moved out, still lives there to this day and isn't some nerd from back in high school that got lucky with my mom. I don't see why living with your parents is seen as pathetic when it saves money on not paying for rent, water, power and internet bills.
Yeah I know. My parents both didn't move out till they were in their mid to late 20s as did most of my family. I guess it becomes pathetic if you are like 40 and still living or don't have a job and leech off of them.
My dad is 47 or 48 now and my grandparents are 75 I think, atleast my grandad. My dad has the house in the Will so theres no point in moving out and buying a place just to get it sooner or later.
I've lived on my own plenty of times but just once I want a job in my home town. The amount of money I could save by not paying full rent and bills. Plus I get pretty lonely living on my own for so long, don't even think of getting on gf much less knowing her enough to ask her to move in because my job causes me to move so often I'm never in one place more than a year.
If you can't walk to your fridge, with your dick swinging; you've not yet become your own man.
You're still cocooning and are protected from real world things: rent, cost of living, groceries, unexpected bills, price increases, negotiating renting contract.
I am not saying this to mock anyone. Take the words of my first sentence as a motivation to seek to improve and progress.