Moving out

[ImperialPhantom]

I would absolutely advise moving out. It's good to get experience taking care of your own household, and at age 25, most women are going to wonder about a guy who is living with his parents at 25.

 

[k450ofu3k-gh-5ipe]

I moved out when I was 18. Best decision I ever made.

 

[hedrick]

I've never interpreted "therefore, a man shall leave his mother and father to be joined to his wife" as meaning that a man should live with his parents until he is married... I've always interpreted it as simply meaning you probably should move out if you're going to get married, because living with wifey AND mommy is just asking for trouble.

I'd go further. It's probably not about where you live in any case. It's a matter of what your primary family is. Before you are married, you're part of your parents' family. Afterwards, you and your wife start a new family, and assuming you have children, you are responsible to them. Your first priority in relationships now has to go to your wife, and eventually your kids.

There are times when people have to live with their parents even after marriage. I'd say this passage still applies.

 

[Annie Mouse]

These days, it's common to experience living away from home as a young, single adult. Many, though not all, people have their first experience of doing that when they move away to go to college.
I met an older Christian lady who lived with her parents until she got married, but she married at 18 already. Years later, she expressed some regret that she never had the opportunity to experience living life as a single girl away from home.

I moved out when I was 16 going on 17. I was still in high school, but I thought my chances of trying to be high school valedictorian would be ruined if I moved out-of-state with my folks. My stepfather was in the army... So I moved in with friends of the family. (I ended up not even being valedictorian, though I came close. Devastating. When I was younger, I couldn't stand to be number two.)

I'm now over 30 and still not married. Not everyone gets married, you know.