When did you "Grow Up?"

[ashjohnson80]

I'm not talking like "I grew up in the 1980s" or anything, I mean what age did you feel like you were an adult? 18, 25, 40, never?

I was just thinking, I've been married for almost 5 years, have owned two houses, have owned my own business, have graduated from college and I still don't really feel "grown up".

 

[Bob Slydell]

Many would debate whether I ever did, but I'd say it was when my oldest son was born.

 

[minnieandme]

I didn't know we were suppose to do that

 

[ChrisnSteph]

I'm still waiting to feel like a "grown up"! Seriously though, nothing says you're grown up like making your first mortgage payment.

 

[luvwinnie]

I refuse to!

 

[Miss Jasmine]

In some ways I still don't feel "grown up" but I will say that in some ways I felt very "grown up" when my dad was sick and then died (not an adult, but dealing with adult issues). So that would be under 18 in that case.

 

[minkydog]

I felt grown up when I faced my first real crisis. I lost my second child and nobody could fix it--not my mom, not my hubby, not my church. I couldn't flirt, pay or argue my way out of it. I have never felt so alone. All of a sudden my eyes were opened to dangers in the world that I had never noticed before. I aged overnight and though I eventually moved past the pain, it changed me forever.

 

[RickinNYC]

I think I realized I had finally grown up when I realized that my Mom and Dad were no longer on the pedestal I had them on my entire life and that the mistakes they made were done simply because they are human like everyone else. That was also when my folks and I actually became friends.

 

[JVL1018]

Sure,when my kids were born(I was just turned 28 and just about to turn 30),
but really when my Mom died when I was 32, I really felt like I was a grown up, in the worst sense of the word-I went from having 2 grandmothers, my Mom and my MIL to having no older close female relatives in the space of 4 years. I feel like I am IT-alone as the matriarch type person for my kids-its weird

 

[dturner]

Grown up???? NEVER!!!

 

[aprilgail2]

Not until I had my daughter! Kids sure make you feel like a grown up!!

 

[blue_river]

When my mother died last year - isn't that strange?

 

[ChrisnSteph]

I felt grown up when I faced my first real crisis. I lost my second child and nobody could fix it--not my mom, not my hubby, not my church. I couldn't flirt, pay or argue my way out of it. I have never felt so alone. All of a sudden my eyes were opened to dangers in the world that I had never noticed before. I aged overnight and though I eventually moved past the pain, it changed me forever.

I know how you feel. I was thinking the same thing, but I didn't want to bring it up.

 

[CapeCodTenor]

Still haven't grown up, and don't think I ever will. Age is a state of mind.

 

[Narnian_Princess]

Well, I always thought that when I turned 18 I would be grown up... but on my 18th birthday I said "Forget this!" and became more immature than ever! I became Disney-obsessed and joined the DIS a month later, and I don't think I will ever really grow up. It's too fun being a big "kid"!

 

[hiwaygal]

Growing old is mandatory...

Growing up is optional!

 

[trappednabox]

I'll let ya know when it happens

 

[vernfonzndrian]

I have always felt that the day I found out that I was pregnant with my son at the age of seventeen, I grew up. It happened really fast but at that very point I knew my life was not only for me, but for me to be here for him, and responsible for him. I remember having my graduation like one week after I found out that I was pregnant, and remembering crying my head off as I got ready, because I now knew, I was no longer a child.

 

[Robinrs]

When I realized I was an orphan... at 46! When you turn around and there's nothing there but God to lead you, you are indeed a bonified Grown Up.

 

[Darth Cupcake]

I still don't feel grown up. That coincides nicely with DH's belief that I still act like a child. Every time he says this, I get really angry and throw a temper tantrum