One area where you may feel pressure is around moving away from your parents and living your own life. But is this really vital for us?

About when is the best time to move out from your parents, how living with your parents affects an adult, and how to decide to move.

Until what age is it normal to live with your parents, and when is it time to move out?
In many countries around the world, living with parents for a long time is normal. For example, they start a separate life quite late in Spain, Sweden, etc.

This is influenced by general cultural characteristics and standard of living. There people can afford to live with their parents and explore what they want to do.

What picture is observed in Ukraine?

In general, in the modern world, children live longer with their parents than before. There is a tendency that they can remain under the parent's wing until they are 25, 30 and even 35 years old.

If before it was uncomfortable to live with your parents because you have a partner, you live together and have children, now people can freely date and still live with their parents.

After all, the age when people are ready to start a family and enter into a serious relationship with a shared life has moved significantly.

This, according to the psychologist, is a marker that growing up is slower. That is why today there is no single date when you can say that you need to move out.

The optimal indicator, says the psychotherapist, ranges from 18 to 25 years. To determine a comfortable time for yourself, you should look at the general criteria that can guide your decision to move out.

- So, for example, if you start studying, then it is best to immediately have the intention to move out.

Also, criteria that may influence this decision are: the presence of a serious relationship, children, financial situation, stable work, big financial goals, for example, buying your own home.

How does living with parents for a long time affect your psychological state?
A separate life from parents is one of the necessary boosters for separation. Otherwise, it will be difficult for a person to feel his adulthood.

But long-term living with parents affects not only the level of separation, but also decline in all areas of life: from earnings to relationships.

Research has shown this
— According to the results, if a child stays with his parents for a long time, then it becomes increasingly difficult for him to leave.

When you live with your parents, then one way or another, some of your material needs are provided for: for example, you have a place to live, you don’t have to pay for utilities, and therefore you don’t need to earn more. Thus, the growth necessary for the person himself does not occur.

Living with parents for a long time develops infantilism. By infantilism, the psychologist means that today children grow up more slowly.

This influences the fact that people later start relationships and start their own families, take responsibility for their lives and begin to develop in professional activities.

One important consequence of living with one's parents is limited interaction with friends and potential sexual partners.

Accordingly, in this area a person also begins to decline. It turns out that the longer a person lives with his parents, the more difficult it will be for him to find a good match.

If such a child is the only one with parents, then not only infantilism develops, but also a certain selfishness.

That is, when a person enters into relationships with other people, he is more prone to egocentrism and individualism than others, and also rarely gives in to his desires.

- Simply put, such a person is convinced that everyone around him should satisfy his whims. The same trend is observed in relationships with others. Therefore, it is difficult for them to get along with someone and live.

Thank you all for your attention...with respect, Yana.