Without a family as in fully on your own since legal age, be it kicked out / had to leave at 18 or from a foster background, or from an orphanage.
Without a family as in fully on your own since legal age, be it kicked out / had to leave at 18 or from a foster background, or from an orphanage.
Pretty well now!
The short short version is: kicked out at 19, family never spoke to me again.
Lived with friends for a few months. Got a job and my own apartment. Struggled hard for three years. Quit my job due to anxiety attacks. Became broke and suicidal. A friend paid for my food and rent for the next year.
Another friend’s mom let me live at her house for the next three years. Started working again. Met someone, moved in together, got married. Life was good until til it wasn’t. Got divorced after being together for seven years. Moved across the country. Moved in with friend who once paid for my food and rent and we started dating. Went back to school. Went to therapy. Got married again. Life is good.
It took a while, but like Dan Savage said, “it gets better “.