Stone Soup by Jan Eliot for June 11, 2013

But if you live alone then you may not cook dinner at all if you don’t want to! I never cook when alone without my family (who either insists on eating warm dinner or whom I want to feed healthy).

Ooooo, she stepped in her own doo.

In the final panel, I think it’s the opposite. Anyway, I have two cousins who are brothers unmarried in their 40s who still live with their mother. I don’t know why with the older, but the younger is a “special” case if you know what I mean.

@hsawlrae: no, she didn’t. Val doesn’t live with her mom, her mom lives with her.

I always though Val bought the house from Evie. Or did I dream this up?

If you live with your parents and end up taking care of them, that puts a different spin on the matter. Even if some very stupid, prejudiced people say you’re living off of them and are irresponsible.

yep, I agree. I did it for many years before I married and as much as I love my husband I would just once like to come home to an empty house and have popcorn for dinner. lol Of course I would want him back soon.

WHERE IS OFFICER PHIL ? ? ?

Well, at least Val said “eligible men” today; yesterday’s ’hasn’t met the right person’ made me wonder where the story line was going. Not that I care, it just seemed forced/unnatural as opposed to ’hasn’t met the right guy’ (or gal) yet’

Well, one thing positive thing may have come out of this economic disaster is the reunification of families forced to live together the way we used to.

If my mom and I had ever shared a home, one of us would have been in hospital and the other in jail. No telling which way it would have gone.

how many people have a cottage they can go to by themselves??

Having been suddenly widowed, there was a period of time I considered moving to live near my parents. To be close to family that you love is a comfort especially in times of grief.In my case, it would have been a mistake because I would not have met the girl that became my second wife and the mother of my only daughter. Remember, men who live close to their parents (even if it is in the same house) are not necessarily “momma’s boys”. They may be living there to help support the one that gave them life and raised them at a time of life that their mothers need help.Even so, it should be at least a mild warning sign. Just because he is not a momma’s boy and loves you, it does not mean that the situation would be a good one. Remember that the Chinese ideogram for trouble is two women under one roof.

My husband and I both lived with our parents before we were married. (Well, me with my widowed mom.) I don’t think it was that uncommon back in the ’50’s.

Shouldn’t have said that Val.

True, and that is what family is for, to be there for each other. It’s really no one else’s business. Of course, if you don’t get along with your family, that’s another story entirely.

Right!

Also, there’s a big difference between moving back in with your parents when life hits you with something heavy and never having moved out in the first place.

But what (maybe) Eve wanted to say was, you can’t tell just from seeing a man living with his parent(s) WHY he lives there.

Please help me out here. I am having problems with double standards. So, if a woman is living with her Mom (or Dad), there is something wrong with her and she should be avoided ?

You took the words right out of my computer! :)

As do a lot of normal adults in these financially straightened times. The good old days of multi-generational families is back in full force for some of us…

And if the destruction of the Middle Class continues, the 50’s ideal of the Nuclear Family will pass into history.

Touché.

I gotta disagree with Grandma on this one. After all, SHE waited till she found the “right” one.

you aid it

In this case, mom is living with her daughter.