No child, no matter how old you are, wants to move back home to live with their parents.
Not only does it bruise your ego, but it makes you feel like you’re ten again having to follow all these now pointless rules.
Most of them you hadn’t had to follow in a long time. For me, it was the fact that when I moved back home I wasn’t able to mess with the thermostat whatsoever. My mother had very strict rules about the A/C system in her home. The system was never allowed to go below eighty degrees in the summer and never above seventy degrees in the winter. Now, this wouldn’t have been terrible except that I had just become pregnant and was producing more blood in my body. Due to the increase in blood, I was constantly burning up or freezing depending on the day. In the hottest time of the year, I would find myself waking up drenched in a puddle of sweat even with the A/C and my ceiling fan on full blast. It was miserable. I begged my mom to allow me to lower the temperature just two degrees so that it was at least around 78 when she wasn’t home. She refused and then proceeded to put a lock box around the thermostat just in case I tried to do anything anyways. Fortunately, I was able to move out of her house and back into my own place where I keep the house a comfortable 78 degrees and even drop it down to 75 at night when I’m about to go to bed.
