“There is nothing better than living with your parents. You come home from work and the house is clean and the food is prepared. That is true happiness,” 35-year-old Karine Hayrapetyan told Aravot Daily as part of its Femini “Specialty: Motherhood” series during a mini survey.
However, Karine was one of the few participants in our survey who supported the idea of young couples living with the husband’s parents.
It has been a tradition in Armenian society for a long time for a man to live with his parents when he starts his own family, especially if he is their only son. However, over time, this stereotype has started to change. Many young couples have been wanting to live separately from the man’s parents.
“We are currently renting. We live separately from my husband’s parents so that we can understand each other better. Living separately makes your relationship stronger,” 25-year-old Arpine Sedrakyan said.
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According to 29-year-old Vardges Poghosyan, his family will be more successful and will have more achievements due to the fact that they have become more independent, organized, and self-sufficient from living on their own. He said, “We lived with my parents for five years after we got married, but then we understood that we are not growing as a new family.”
Although it says in the Bible, “For this reason, a man shall leave his father and his mother, and be joined to his wife; and they shall become one flesh” (Genesis 2:24), that does not mean couples should reject their dear parents or leave the comfort of their dear parents, but it is against the idea of forming a new family within a larger family.
Living with parents or living separately does not only have a psychological perspective, but an economic one as well. Many couples not only in Armenia, but around the world are forced to live with their parents because they are simply unable to take care of their finances- everything from utilities to mortgage or rent. It is possible to find many real stories on the Mamamia platform about young couples who lived separately from their parents in the beginning, but they had to move back in with the parents due to financial problems. A 27-year-old woman described, “We got married when we were 21 and we lived separately from his parents for two years. We had many crazy and fun memories, but we soon understood that we are unable to financially support ourselves.”
Aravot Daily will also present the importance of living separately from a psychological view and why young couples resort to the services of a psychologist.
Tatev Harutyunyan
