When did you realise you were all grown up?

[jbj]

Yesterday I got super excited when my new steam clean mop arrived, and then a little bit of me died realising that this is the kind of stuff that interests me now

 

[GomezAddams]

Still waiting at 53...

 

[Elias Graves]

Probably when I realized my parents were winging it just as much as I am.

 

[jelloman]

When I realized that with all of issues that existed between me and my father, I was in many ways just like him...

 

[Packerbacker]

Still waiting!! 44 and counting.

 

[Deep Eddy]

When I bought a sofa (and got rid of the futon). When my furniture no longer disassembled for easy moving, a sense of permanence kicked in.

 

[Kerouac]

Boys have a penis, girls have a vagina.

 

[Guitar Heel]

Boys have a penis, girls have a vagina.

 

[Ignored Member]

I broke up with a high-maintenance girlfriend, received a statement from my credit card company for almost $4000 I didn't have money to pay, and decided I wasn't about to ask mom and dad to bail me out.

 

[Tig]

Incremental steps,
like my first real job, getting married and buying my first house, the birth of my son, the graduation of my son...

 

[Chad]

When I got an AARP sign up packet in the mail. I think they may have been looking for my dad seeing as I am only 43.

 

[Johnny N.]

Athough I still only order toys I think the grown up thing started when envelopes with windows started showing up with my name on them. Oh, and having a kid. That will slap you in the face with some reality.

 

[Coralkong]

When I added up my monthly bills.
Then I got really drunk.

 

[Gary Blanchard]

My realization came with (surprise) therapy. That's when I began to realize I deserved good things and could have good things, and I stopped sabotaging myself. The past 23 years have been the best years of my life.

 

[Mark Wein]

I feel split. There is the part that is responsible for a family and business that knows I MUST be an adult if all of this shit is happening but the "inner Mark" still feels like a 15 year old most of the time.

 

[Modern Saint]

When I had to start paying my own bills.

 

[Knox in Box]

2003 I called my dad and asked for advice. He seemed shocked on the phone and I didn't know why. As I got off the phone I realised that was the only time I could remember that I had asked im for advice. Then I realised for good or bad I had been doing this all along, this grown-up thing.

 

[VoidTerraFirma]

Still waiting!! 44 and counting.

This…exactly.

 

[sleewell]

holding my son in the hospital.

 

[tiger roach]

I'm not sure. I feel grown up now (unfortunately), and I remember not feeling grown up not too long ago. But I wasn't paying attention when the change happened.