Like I mentioned before, I actually always lived in MD so family, etc isnt a problem. I do have my own job and my own money, etc. Right now we're not even living together... we both think its kind of crazy to pay money to rent a place (why pay someone else's mortgage), so we unfortunately both live with our parents. We pay rent to our parents to cover food, etc., but both his family and my family are cool with having us stay home as long as we 1.) continute to pay rent and 2.) contribute to the house. We wanted to wait to live together until we bought a house together because if we're going to be paying anyone's mortgage, it might as well be our own. Right or wrong, thats just the mentality we have I guess
I definitely have my own friends, job, money, car, hobbies, etc. I just hoped to always have him around, too