Could you live with your PARENTS?
Aug 24, 2022
4 minutes
WORDS: GILLIAN HARVEY
‘We don’t live in each other’s pockets’
Retired teacher Christine Rose, 65, lives in South Croydon with her husband Ewen, 59, daughter Sarah, 39, son-in-law Paul, 41, and grandchildren Jack, nine, and Sam, six.
‘Let’s move in together!’ I said. I wasn’t talking to a partner, but to my daughter Sarah, then 30, and her husband Paul, 32. It was October 2013 and my husband Ewen, then 50, and I had been watching them pay extortionate rent while trying to save a deposit for a house, for almost two years. My grandson Jack was just 11 months old and their second-floor flat was hard
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