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Solving your adult baby-child still at home problem.
Make it work or get them moving.
In 2018, an American 30-year old male sued his parents for insisting he move out of home. Even though he admitted that he never spoke to them, he claimed that they should allow him to continue to live in his bedroom. It didn’t work and he did move out, but only after many attempts and an actual court case.
This week’s column is about ensuring that you never get to that stage with your adult child. It follows last week’s column about the problems of adult offspring continuing to live like children in their parent’s home to the detriment of everyone in the house.
As their parent, you need to do everything you can to change things and either make them behave in a more considerate manner in your home, or move out and become an adult. So how do you have that conversation?
Tell them the problem
You want a good relationship with them and a harmonious home, but increasingly you are finding that you are starting to resent them for the extra work you are doing for them or the fact that the house is much more tumultuous than you would like it. Thus, the current arrangement is not working for you.
What must happen
