I considered myself an adult at 20 when I married for the first time. Yes, I was too young. No, I wasn’t an adult. I’m pretty sure I’m there now, as I’ll be 46 next month.

My boyfriend is selling his 2006 Honda Civic Hybrid. It has the carpool access stickers too (which you can’t get anymore).

I don’t regularly think of myself as an adult but it does hit me sometimes. Usually when I’ve made a BIG purchase (because really, most kids wouldn’t be able to do that, right?) or when I travel by myself. Going on vacation alone to a country of my choosing makes me feel very grown up!

When I signed the lease on my 1st apartment, at the age of 26, I felt like a real adult.

Woo hoo! Sounds like lots of fun family time and travel!

Honestly? Last year, when I turned 30.

great question…after living as an adult on my own for many years, it was not until I was living with my now husband, and was at the grocery store looking at cuts of meat that it hit me.. Wow, I am really an adult now. Something about loading up the cart with such family stuff I guess.

Happy and safe travels to you!

When did I begin to think of myself as an adult?

Not for the all the years that I lived on my own.
Not when I got married.
Not when we bought our first house.
Not when we sold that house and bought another.

So when?
Last week, when we decided to gut and remodel the kitchen. Yeah, it will cost us $30,000 for me to realize that I’m an adult. Only an adult could choose cherry wood in a peppercorn color, terra cotta tile floors, antiqued door pulls, copper tin backsplash, and amarillo sand granite countertops, right?

However, since I’m unsure of every single one of my choices and will feel ill for the next 60-90 days until everything is installed (and maybe more ill after that), perhaps I’m not really an adult yet.

Enjoy your trip this weekend! Drive safe.

Easy, when I turned 30.

sitting in airport bar last year having a screwdriver before my 8am flight to boston made me feel like an adult. crazy, right?

Purchasing my condo made me feel “adult-like.” But I still feel like a kid who doesn’t know anything half the time

Why do you need to grow up? Stay at home! Don’t leave the nest.

Honestly? It was yesterday. I had to make an incredibly tough decision that affects the lives of a lot of people. And it was squarely on my shoulders at the time because B was at work.

The issue at hand is our cat’s Sassy’s health. Unfortunately, after speaking with the vet, we’ve decided to proceed with comfort care until she passes. We’re going to keep with game plan of giving the best in life that she can have until she needs to leave us. After going through all of that, I did step back and introspectively found that I’m an adult.

I don’t think that it was one moment in time, but over the last few months - since I got married and assumed the role of step-mother to my husband’s amazing daughters, I have begun to feel more like an adult. I have given up eating Chinese take-out in my PJs at 10pm and taken on the role of too many loads of laundry, quizzing a 4th grader on Vocab and Spelling words and making daily decisions that affect a family and not just me. Overall, I am happy being an adult but every once in a while, I wish that I were still the kid in the backseat, asking “when are we going to get there? ….”

Geez, I think I was thinking of myself as adult since the age of 10-12. There in lies the tale. At about that age or soon after I would have said, ‘Gee why sell/trade in a good car with only 62K miles on it? It’s just starting to get cheap to drive now!’ But then I recall that Studebakers generally did not last much longer than that. I think it really hit home when I was just about the only one in my age group listening to ‘roots’ music and not the current pop sensations. The Blues guys were just more interesting. That was in HS. Cheers & Good Luck with the travels! ‘VJ’

I cannot imagine it taking an hour to go 5 miles.

I became an adult the day I turned 18. But in college I came up with my 5 steps to being a grownup. When you accomplish 3 of them you are a grown-up.

1. Career job (I was 23)
2. Spouse (I was 26)
3. Own your own residence (I was 26)
4. Own your own car (I was 26 when I bought my car without my parents’ help)
5. Kids (not yet)

So I was 26 when I became a grownup (2002 was a big year for me).

You wrote:

>[I]s anyone else watching Keeping Up With the
>Kardashians?

Is that different from the…er…straight-to-video production of hers sold through Vivid Video? I quite enjoyed that one!

I’m 30 and I still don’t regard myself as a grown up…. neither do i intend to! My father died this year at the age of 65 and he said right to the end that he would ‘be okay when he grew up’. He lived a crazy life and i fully intend to follow in his footsteps.

Adult? Gah…I still forget that I’ll be 35 next Monday. On the flip, I do tend to tell people that I’m 40 (don’t ask).

I realized that I was an adult when I got married. I was 27 years old and my aunt told me a sex joke. A few months later, we went back to Kansas City for Thanksgiving so my husband could meet the rest of my family. When they started talking, they let me stay in the room! I didn’t get pushed out with, “This is grown folks business. Go play with tag or something”! Yes, sad to say, when I was there at the age of 23, they told me to go play tag or hopscotch. My cousin who is 3 months older, got to stay because she was married.