I agree with the above posters and want to point out that the fact I didn't do what was best for me at age 18, but did it based on the fact that I could not legally be forbidden, means that I was acting immaturely. I was a legal adult, but I wasn't thinking like one. Therefore the "age is just a number" argument, before it gets made, was irrelevant in my case. If I had been mature enough to do what was best for me, which would have meant not moving in with an older alcoholic who abused me, who by the way I had met only the day before, *then* age would have been just a number.