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AITJ for wanting to sell my home and retire because my adult kids refuse to help out?
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This is classic generational drift, the moment when the boomerang kids bounce home and swap roommate drama for a laundry-free, grass-free zone maintained only by parental decree and hired help. Economic anxiety is real, but it does not explain why a bathroom morphs into a science experiment or why no one knows how to locate the curb on bin night. The call for tough times and family unity always appears when structure turns into actual inconvenience, as if selling a primary home is a betrayal rather than a permission slip for self-sufficiency and growth.
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Parents have every right to retire and simplify, especially after raising kids whose only show of adulthood is managing a monthly car payment more skillfully than a dishwasher. If family wants to keep everyone together, offer a rota and a timeline, not an open-ended guilt trip about economic hardship. Leaving is not abandonment, it is an invitation to adulthood nobody can ignore, and sometimes downsizing is the kindest thing anyone can do for a household that treats chores like electives.
Parents decide to sell the house and retire after their 20 and 19-year-old daughters move back in, refuse to pay for household expenses, and do basic chores: ‘they only clean up when it’s absolutely necessary’
Nothing tests the limits of patience quite like watching adulthood unfold in slow motion inside a house that looks more like a co-op for semi-independent life skills than a home with shared responsibilities, and after years of reminders about chores, dishes, pet hair, and the great trash can mystery, it is no wonder a pair of parents in their fifties and sixties quietly dream of fleeing for a smaller, less stressful second property while the grown daughters treat basic maintenance like a recurring blind spot. When the best-case scenario is squeezing a $20 utility payment out of adults who can manage car loans and cell contracts but freeze up at mere suggestion of dragging the garbage out or dealing with lawn care, maybe it is time for everyone to test their wings and budget the hard way.
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