I moved in with my uncle for a few months during the summer after my mother passed away, while the rest of my family got situated in a house. This was around age 14. I'm not sure if that counts exactly as moving away from home, but I no longer lived with my closest family members so maybe.

At 17, my senior year in high school, I moved from California to Washington with a friend in order to attend a different school and get away from California, which I hated at the time. I moved back after graduating high school for about a year, when I joined the military at 18. Since joining the military, I have lived completely independent of my family and have not relied on them in any way.