I am 25(F) and moved out of my parents house a little over a year ago to be closer to my boyfriend and try out the big city. It has been a struggle to adjust. I’ve noticed especially lately that when I go home to my parents house and leave to come back, I get really intensely emotional and anxious about leaving. It’s to the point that I cry on and off for days and can barely eat. When I get like this I feel like I’m a little kid again and just want my mom. I feel like where I live will just never feel like home the way it does when I’m with my family. I worry about missing out on what’s happening there (even though it’s typically nothing). I worry about them missing me and being lonely and I start thinking about how I can never move back there because I’m an adult and it would just make it worse when time came to move out again. The weird thing is I lived away at college for 4 years and even though it was closer to home, the emotions when going back to school were not nearly this intense. Does anyone else experience this? I feel like a freak for having these childlike emotions as an adult. I’ve started seeing a therapist as I have other issues as well (GAD/OCD) but I wonder if anyone has dealt with separation anxiety like this and what helped for you.