More and more people are staying at "home" with their parents for longer. I don't know if this is always a good thing, but it certainly sounds like it was in your case, Molly. My husband lived with his mother for about 9 months, after his divorce. He was traveling during the week and spent weekends at her house, and had his kids there every other weekend too. I think that in the case of my daughter, and my husband's kids, it has made them even closer than normal with their grandparents, and that is definitely a positive outcome to a horrible situation (divorce).