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🏡Survival when "home is not a safe zone" at 22 📦✨

It's only been three days to move into a new condo. Now around the pile of things to move with the chaos of the last bend. It's a very tired storage, but it's also the biggest self-saving decision of our 22-year-olds.

The word "home is a safe zone" may not apply to everyone. For us, we love home very much, but with Mindset, a lifestyle, or a very different perspective. When you have to live together, it becomes that you talk to each other, the two words end with emotional and mixed up. The atmosphere in the house is uncomfortable to become a negative energy that hurts both minds; -;

So we crystallize, "If you're together, it's worse. Let's try it apart." So the only way to do it is to find a job and move out.

After graduation, our biggest focus was to stabilize ourselves as quickly as possible and decide to move outside ourselves, which is now in the last three countdown days to finish clearing things. 📦

Seriously, the closer the day of the move, the deeper the guilt in our hearts, but today we choose to take a step back to maintain the relationship before everything breaks down. We believe that having the right distance, there is a lot of personal space for each other to breathe. As long as we talk, negative thoughts should be reduced and turned into more concern. 🍃

This retreat is our big growth lesson. I hope the right space will heal our relationship at home. ❤️‍🩹

Anyone in their early 20s who is starting to work and experiencing similar awkwardness at home, I'd like to say that you're not fighting alone. You're very good. We're very good. It's encouraging. ✌🏻📦

# Family issues # Life problems # Family is not a safe zone # Family review # I am at this age

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