Do you prefer to live close to your parents or far away from them? I imagine everyone has different points on this question. I am only child in my family. From my point of view, I like to live close to my parents, but I would not like to share a same house with them. I will tell you the following three special reasons.
For few people, they’d like to live with the parents due to saving money, because most of parents would like to provide more help for their children. My parents are both farmers. Their expense must depend on my support. I choose to live in different place due to our different habits. I also commit that my parents can’t accept my habits. For example, I like to eat many vegetables instead of meat and get up early every day. In addition, my parents like to watch TV, but I tend to like to stay in my home alone. In my family, my mother often invite her friends to enjoy dinner. Because of our living habit difference, I consider my parents need to have an independent space to enjoy their life. Meanwhile, we also avoid quarrel with each other. In my mind, it’s very essential for me to keep a certain distance with them, but I hope I can live with them in the same street. With their ages growing, I will worry about their heath and inconvenient movement, I hope I can take care them in time when they need my help. When their ages are approaching eighty years, I want to live with them together. I need to practice filial piety.
On the other hands, to have a happy family reunion at weekends, I will try my best to keep a little distance with my parents on weekdays. Sometimes, when we meet each other every day, maybe there are some negative emotions to influence our relationships. If we live in a different house, we can avoid this trouble. When we hold a reunion dinner at weekends, we will have a good mood to enjoy the special holiday.
The third reason is that if I have a new family, because of the conception differences, I strongly disagree we live with our parents. There is a good sample to explain this point. Among my relatives, one of my cousins shared a big house with their son. They often complained about their daughter-in-law and thought she only loved making up instead of working. My cousin and his wife had a good emotion before they married. However, after they married, the family fell in some troubles. Even they wanted to divorce. Luckily, they finally heard some suggestions from their friends that let them live a little far away with their parents. Three months later, their love was recovered. Now they live happily and have borne a son. More importantly, they also tried to keep a good relationship with their parents.
Dear friends, would you like to share your views on this topic? Thank you very much.
