When, and how did you leave the nest?

My parents and brother moved from Montana to California after I graduated from high school.
I felt I was a burden to my parents, so I hopped on a bus and went back to Montana. I got a job and rented an apartment
because I wanted to be on my own.
 
When I was 19 and in college, my boyfriend got a job in another state. So, I dropped out of college (temporarily due to out-of-state tuition too high for my family to pay) and went with him. We both returned the next year to resume college, but meanwhile my parents had moved away to a one-bedroom apartment in a city halfway across the country! Sneaky!
 
I moved out of my home nest after high school. Got taken advantage by a ā€œfriendā€ who moved in my apartment with a couple nesters. Moved back home. Met my wife to be while living at home. We eloped drove to central New York stayed a short time at my wifeā€™s parents. Then I drove from New York to Salt Lake City Utah with only $200.00 in my pocket. Prior to driving westward I bought a heavy green plastic tarp from K-Mart. First night out it rained I stopped at a campground for the night. I bought four rubber tipped spears to hold the tarp off the ground.
 
17 off to nursing school, then college, then to faraway places and never looked back except on holidays. With my matriarch mom, you had better be there for every special occasion or else. The only exception was being abroad.
 
My story is a bit more "colorful". I was 19, an only child, and lived at home in the late 70's. I had grown up in a very strict Southern Baptist environment, so I couldn't wait to let loose.

When I graduated High School I went out partying until the wee hours of the morning. I would come home at 2 or 3 in the morning and "worship at the porcelain altar". My dad could always hear me and would always knock on the bathroom door and ask me if I was okay. God bless him. He was so patient with me.

Finally, my dad said that he and my mother could no longer live with my lifestyle and late hours. He said he would pay the rent for an apartment if I would leave home. I moved to an apartment. He came over the next day and said my mother missed me and I needed to visit her. I did.

I never moved back home and continued my wild life style throughout college. I eventually came to my senses and realized I needed to get serious about life. I look back on it all and think it is amazing that I was able to build a decent life for myself, but then we all get that dose of reality at some point.
 

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