When did you feel like an adult?

[HappyLawyer]

after paying mortgage for a year

 

[Pop Daddy]

when i went to Jail

 

[Caradana]

I'm also 26, and I first felt like an adult when I started my first job (wall street) and traveled by myself to lots of spots around America.

 

[pearlieq]

I'm 26 and I definitley feel like a adult in the sense that I'm in charge of my own life and responsible for myself and my family. I guess I started feeling that way in my late teens, but it really gelled in my early 20's. I can't really remember feeling any different since early high school, but I've taken care of myself for a long time.

 

[LadyyRedd]

I'm 31 and still don't know what I want to be when I grow up!

Kimya

 

[JVL1018]

I had my first child at 28, my second at 29, and I did feel like an adult, I mean it felt natural to be a wife and mother, I never felt like OMG I can't believe I'm resposible for someone..but I REALLY felt like an adult when my Mom died in 2004. Or maybe I've just felt old since then. LOL
Either way, my life changed at that point (my mother in law had died in 1999)when I realized I was the woman in our family. Ihave SILs, and I love them, but they are peers, not the older persons to look up to like my grandmothers/mother/MIL were.

 

[hpygrll]

36 here - kind of felt like an adult at our first soccer game for my 4 year old when I gazed over the sea of mini-vans (mine included) and went wow - when did this happen? But it was fleeting - still not an adult.

Jenny

 

[fabumouse]

When I brought my daughter home from the hospital - all of the sudden it hit me that I was responsible for another human being - quite the sobering thought. I was 24 at the time.

That was exactly when I felt like an adult and not an imposter. I was 32.

 

[antmaril]

I adopted a baby from South Korea when I was 35 years old. The day that baby was given to me, was the day I became an adult. I (and my husband, of course) were totally responsible for this life. It is an awesome responsibility and if you want to do it right, you must be adult.

 

[Cantw8]

when i went to Jail

Big, sexy guy like you....I hope you didn't forget to sleep on your back

 

[chrissyk]

It was around the time that we bought our 1st house. We had our 1st Wills drawn up at around the same time, and I think that doing that officially made me feel like an adult. We were 23 at the time.

 

[momm2four]

If you mean feeling like you don't want to childish things anymore, then I haven't reached that point yet. I teach middle school, and sometimes I feel so immature around some of the other teachers. I'll make a joke or do something goofy, and some of the more "serious" teachers just look at me like I have two heads. Maybe that's why I get along with my students so well, because I haven't forgotten what it's like to want to be silly sometimes.

However, the reality of getting older has sunk in lately. When I was younger, I thought of my mom as older and my grandma as being really old. I thought about it the other day, and my mom (and her generation) has slipped into my grandma's position in life, and I have somehow become what my mom was.

When you are young, you don't know that many people who become really sick/ill (I know there are some, just not that many), so you tend to think of things like heart disease, cancer, diabetes, cholesterol problems, etc as only happening to "old" people. Well, now I'm 38, and I am seeing many people who are only 8-15 years older than me start to really have to deal with things like this. It makes me wonder what will happen to my circle of friends and me in the next decade. It's that whole circle of life thing, I guess....

Whoa...didn't mean to get that deep, but your question made me think.

Good question.

Lori P.

 

[CJRN]

When I did not get carded to buy alcohol (I was about 29).

 

[freckles and boo]

I think I was born grown up and am backwards. At 14 I was responsible for taking care of my four younger sibs when our parents were working. By 16 I was working and paying for all my own expenses/extras with the exception of room and food. I paid for my own braces at 17 and paid off $30,000 of higher education in my 20s. I own a home and a couple cars. But, ironically, I feel much younger now that I am almost forty, am married, and have my own kids. Although I don't put much stock in astrology, I have read that Capricorns age in reverse - that we start out serious and end up silly. That certainly seems to be the case with me!

 

[Micca]

As one has been drug kicking and screaming into adulthood, avoid it at all costs.

 

[Pop Daddy]

Big, sexy guy like you....I hope you didn't forget to sleep on your back

, alright Cantw8, your the one that wont be safe in any position around me

 

[redshoes]

I'm 29 and have two little boys but still somewhere in my mind I think it wasn't that long ago that I was 18. Sadly, that is becoming less and less true. My youngest son has some medical issues and we are dealing with new things everyday concerning them, in his short 2.5 years he has made me feel very much like an adult.

 

[robertsmom]

Well, I am 31 and a single mom of a 9 year old son. I work, take care of him, help with homework, etc. And yet, most of the time I still feel like a kid faking it as I go along. Nice to know I'm not the only one!

 

[Nancy]

I'll let u know when it happens.

I think I felt like an OLD adult on Sunday when my oldest DD officially turned 18.


No, actually the first time I felt like an adult was when my Dad died suddenly, made me feel like a child and an adult all at the same time.

 

[mtemm]

I remember several years back, I was probably in my early 30's, when my dh's grandmother was planning a party for her daughter (her daughter and my husband were born the same year). She was talking about the number of kids coming and I realized that I thought she meant kids...little kids, most of our friends at the time had started families so kids meant babies/toddlers/preschoolers. But she meant kids, as in her daughter's friends.

For some reason that even sticks out in my mind as the first time that it didn't even occur to me that I would be considered one of the kids.

I'm 39 and don't feel like I thought 39 would feel like. I think I thought it would feel...older. I don't know. adulthood has been the same way.