I'm 28 and live with my parents because I can't afford to live on my own and I'm single.

Lately, my mom wants to do everything with me. For context, she works a desk job at home every day except Monday. I work an active (physically and mentally) job and do not work at home any days.

When the weekend rolls around, she wants to do things. I do not want to do anything. I'm exhausted. I'm an extreme introvert working an extroverted job and all I want to do is recover in my house, read, catch up on writing, drink coffee, nap, and watch TV with the dog.

She gets really upset that I don't do anything with her. But we literally live together. We do everything together. Here's a list of things we do together every week just at home:
• In the morning, first thing I do before work is say hello to her in her office. We chat and I'm sometimes a few minutes late leaving for work.
• Most days we send a few texts during work. Some none at all. I don't really have time to text.
• When I come home, the first thing I do is say hello again. We'll chat for another few minutes and I usually go decompress in my room or on the couch.
• We eat dinner together every single night
• We watch TV together after dinner every single night
• We go to bed at the same time and say goodnight together every single night
• On the weekends, in the morning, we drink coffee and talk together • We clean the house together on Sunday

I don't have many friends in the area anymore so maybe once every other month I go meet someone for dinner on a weeknight, like seriously mild stuff. I also stay over until late at work a few times a year. So it's not like I'm going out all the time and she rarely sees me or talks to me.

I prefer to do my shopping directly after work, and schedule a pick up if I can (except the grocery store), so that's when I prefer to get things done. Not on the weekend. Walking and looking around Target is not something I like to do.

Am I being an asshole? I am posting this here because we're all around the same age. If I was on my own, I think this would be vastly different. But right now I wish more than ever I had my own apartment/space.

Edit: I just want to add, I love my mom. I'm very grateful I can spend time with her. I love eating dinner and watching TV with her and chatting with her all the time. But I'm also an adult with my own preferences and likes/dislikes.

Anyone else here remember playing this game?

This age seemed so far away to me as a kid yet I'm here, 26, today. I'm excited to be approaching 30. I will wear it like a badge of honor as I enjoy this final stretch of my 20s!

Shout-out to all of the winter babies out there.

I remember in my school (I assume gym class) we’d be periodically be forced to do this and we couldn’t opt out of it and we had to learn all the steps. Every time it happened it was a deeply troubling experience and I vividly remember being upset by having to square dance. It was never really announced when we were doing that in gym so I never really knew what I was walking into. Like would it be a fun butt-scooter day or would it be a sad square-dancing day? When I learned we had to dance that day I knew the cotton eye Joe was gonna eventually come up and I’d feel such dread. Did other schools do this or was the staff at my elementary just sadistic?

So I'm from Boston and was born in 1996. I had a trip to NYC in August 2001 a few weeks before Kindergarten started. I didn't go to the World Trade Center but I remember seeing it. Me and my family did however go to the Sony Museum and NBC studios too which I have some pics of. I remember on that trip me and my brother (born in 1991) pissed our parents off because we were making fun of radio Disney at some really expensive restaurant lol. I also remember there was an N64 in our hotel room and I wanted to play it but nobody would let me so I cried.

Our family also visited NYC post 9/11 too in May 2002. I remember it was really dirty and there was lots of trash blowing around. I have some pictures I took of it on film that I can upload too. The highlight of that trip was seeing a Hummer limo at the time and we went to a restaurant called Mars 2112 which was supposed to be this futuristic alien place. Don't think we took any pics of it but I found a Wikipedia article on it. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mars_2112. Me and my brother also did an NBC greenscreen thing too where we pretended to be Al Roker with the weather which I need to digitize.

I was wondering if maybe anyone else here had visited the big apple before the world trade center was destroyed too?

Edit: https://www.sfrevu.com/ISSUES/2001/0109/9864%20Fascape/Page.html holy shit... I found a website on 9/10/2001 of that restaurant Mars 2112 of people visiting it.

Secondary school ( ages 12 to 18 in my country) seemed like forever, it felt like i was gonna be trapped being a school boy having to endure subjects i disliked like P.E or history my whole life. Im 25 know and years happened much faster, especially from 21 to 25. Btw: english is my second language so pardon grammatical mistakes

As someone who did not get to experience those years properly, I yearn to find people my age that still live and socialize like they’re 19.

And celebrate birthdays like they’re 21. And there’s still a yearly ball.

But it’s not the world we live in. It is what it is.

I wish sometimes we could permanently extend fertility and lifespan to 120 so it gives us as a society way more room to still live like that.

A world where the average age of marriage and kids is 40 to 45 would be incredible.

Random thought I had today…

I was 5 and in kindergarten when I got this thing, which yes is a little creepy. It's sorta like a Firby, which I also had around this age, but way more limited in use and a lot weirder. No one I know has ever seen this before lol.

It's like they have a full blown gender war that's going on right now (I never heard of gender war nor did not know that was a thing until this month!!). I don't know if that's happening offline(I don't hang out with younger genZs as someone who was born in '98 so Idk how they usually act with opposite gender irl) but damn do they need to touch grass.

I was just shocked to see that most of y'all here are having a better discussion and reminiscing childhood back in the 2000s instead of constant doom and gloom.

Besides, it's not like I'm subbed to genZ, it keeps popping up on my feed.

Anyone remember that snack it was like a candy filled with yogurt

I remember watching Robots and The Mist because that’s all we ever brought in the car.

I grew up watching this as a kid, I still remember everything about it! It was one of my favorite vhs tapes. I will say the acorn scared me a little bit as a kid.

Monster High Fright Song. The Naked Mole Rap. Hot Tub of Love. The Boondocks Main Theme.

I can go on, but what are some bops from unexpected places that you like? :)

I loved all those mini games you played as the elevator moved.

The background music was awesome! I felt like it was the start of the weird WarioWare series.

I feel like the common sentiment is that it is easier because of how connected most of us are through social media. Personally, I don’t find that to be the case.