Fam, that's not my jam

In your 20s, you'll want privacy and independence. Your family will see it as a personal attack. Set these three key boundaries anyway. Here's how

- By Riddhi Doshi

Want to get the average Indian Mummy-Papa's heads to whip around three times, soap-opera style: Kya? Kya? Kyaaa? Try getting their average 20-something kid to announce that they want to move out of the family home but live in the same city.

“Many Indian parents act out of emotion, not reason,” says psychotherapist Shreya Aras. And yet, for newly minted adults, it’s rarely a fair fight. We’ve picked three thorny 20-something milestones, and how to tackle them. Kya? Kya? Kyaaa? Read on...

The moving-out chat. Grishma Dewani, 28, a food stylist in Mumbai, moved out of her parental home three months ago. She told her mother, the more understanding parent, about it first. Her brother worried about who would do her share of domestic chores and help with the family’s shop.