I remember those first few steps of adulthood and they were so exciting! I left the nest for the first time, moving in with a girlfriend while I was in college. It didn't take long for some of the realities/lessons of adulthood to make it a lot less exciting. Lol. Her and I lived together for, maybe, eight months before we called it quits. Dating her was great but after we moved in together she became excessively demanding and wanted to control every aspect of my life and my future. She was older and was a lot more "worldly" than I was. I slept better than I ever had when I moved back in with my parents after that fiasco. I almost felt like a bear wanting to hibernate. I hadn't realized how stressed out I had been until afterwards.