In many Chinese family structures, if you continue living with your parents long-term after getting married as an adult, your psychological well-being will sooner or later suffer. This is not because "living together itself is problematic," but because the parent-child relationship often remains in a hierarchical structure that has not yet undergone a modern restructuring: parents psychologically default to retaining the right to interpret and manage, while adult children—even if they possess independent capabilities—are continuously pulled back into the "child role" through daily high-frequency interactions, leading to constant intervention and reshaping in life decisions, emotional expression, and boundary establishment. When this role misalignment persists over time, an individual’s sense of autonomy is chronically eroded. Before this structure is rebuilt, it significantly increases the likelihood of psychological conflict, and separation is often the most direct means of reducing the frequency.