At the same time, Hjälm (2014, p. 579) has argued that the decision to stay ‘does not happen in isolation however is related to other life initiatives and people’. In order to grasp how immobility selections or re‐evaluations thereof are influenced by others, the present framework relating to the decision to remain ought to embody the notion of ‘linked lives’. The ‘linked lives’ method encourages abandoning the person as the only unit of research and, as an alternative, views life occasions as skilled together with others, similar to family and associates (Elder,1994; Elder, Johnson, & Crosnoe,2003). Life occasions which are sometimes experienced with others during young maturity embody leaving the parental house, beginning to cohabit, getting married, having youngsters, leaving a relationship, experiencing loss and parental divorce.
