ginabear05 Posted December 27, 2005 Share Posted December 27, 2005 Hello all. I moved from Michigan to Florida earlier this year, about 3 days after my high school graduation to be with my long-time long distance boyfriend. I moved in with him in his parents basement. He told me that we would save more money and have an easier start in our lives if we moved in with his parents. I am almost 19 now and he is 21 1/2. The problem is, we have not saved any money at all living there with his family. I would have expected to save at least $1000 by now and we have not saved a damn thing. We have about $300 to our name and that's just because his parents gave him $200 for a Christmas present. I mentioned this to him and he said well, he really didn't expect to save any money the first year anyway! I wish we could move out and get a place of our own. I was raised to not mooch off of people and I like to be independent and pay my own way. If it wasn't for his parents supporting us we would be living in a cardboard box. I know they like me, but I think they will eventually get sick of us living there considering my boyfriend is well out of his teenage years. My boyfriend only works April-September at his great-uncle's golf course and he doesn't have a winter job (Sept-March he is off). I have my own E-Bay business and it is hard to make a lot of money by yourself working E-Bay. He hasn't worked since Sept and our bank account shows it. I had only visited his family up there twice before moving there and I have never lived outside of Alabama or Florida in my life. I have NO family up there and I miss my family and Florida terribly. I am beginning to think that we would have been better off just staying in our separate places and working & going to school and waiting until later to move in together. He loves living with his parents and thinks it is hunky-dory. I feel like a child living there with them.. I do not feel like an independent adult. I cry all the time over this. Advice would be appreciated..thank you..it is hard being honest about my feelings with him. Link to post Share on other sites
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