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Navigating Change While Returning Home and Family Routines
Does anyone else find that coming home makes people assume you can just slot back into the old routine? I’m living with my family again while restarting my design work, and dinner somehow turned into planning tomorrow’s errands around a rhythm everyone had already built while I was away. Nothing terrible happened. It just hit me that I’m home, but I can’t resume the old version of myself like no time passed. I can love being back and still keep parts of my life mine, so I’m going to explain one regular personal evening instead of quietly adapting to everything and then feeling weird about it.