Pretendependent 

Adult children living at home while pretending to be self sufficient.

Pretendependent is like my 23 year old daughter, who lives at home, but wants to act like she is on her own.
Daughter: "I can come home at anytime of the night I want to, I'm an adult!"
Parent: "Of course you can, when you have your own place, in the mean time please check the name on the property title, my house, my rules."

Pretendependent by jdtam September 1, 2010

Pretendependent 

A young adult of legal age pretending to be independent while still living at home, driving mom and dad's car, etc...Pretending to be independent...Pretendependant!

Joanna bragged about her new shoes, which she could only afford because as a pretendependent, she has discretionary money to spend.

Pretendependent by ultraskinpro May 24, 2012

pretendependant 

Describes a type of person, someone you could end up dating or in a friendship with. The type of person that SEEMS really outgoing, independant, confident, and all that sort of stuff at first, but as a few months go by you realize that they are a life-sucking, clingy, insecure shell of a human being that defines their entire worth through whoever they are with at the moment. I loathe to think I will ever meet another pretendependant woman EVAR.

Neal: Hey man, are you still seeing that chick Gloria?
Bob: Nah man, after a month she got all clingy, just another pretendependant psycho chick!

pretendependant by fulltrucker November 22, 2006