When are you a grown up?

ska_lover

I still don't feel grown up. However I wouldn't dream of dressing like I am a teenager in mini skirts these days

DigForVictory

I wasn't a fan of miniskirts even when I was of an age to wear them, but then it's a tough look to combine with skinned knees, bruises & the odd plaster cast. (I was a clumsy youth, who was required to play hockey several months of the year.)

Still, all good practice for fun things to do with crutches (clock golf around the sitting room with one crutch & a bath sponge was bland, I even did some fencing practice albeit with one leg in a dreadful position) and a robust list of of foodstuffs to assist mending bones with.

With photography as a hobby, I am rarely without bubble mixture. It brings out the youth in folks far better than 'sensitive lighting' & is a lot cheaper. About the only place it isn't a charm is asthma clinic.

.Gigolo_Aunt

DigForVictory wrote: »

I wasn't a fan of miniskirts even when I was of an age to wear them, but then it's a tough look to combine with skinned knees, bruises & the odd plaster cast. (I was a clumsy youth, who was required to play hockey several months of the year.)

I'm not sure why on earth they've brought back leggings either! They looked awful enough on most women's legs the first time round, back in the 80s.

Tammykitty

j-josie wrote: »

I became a grown up in the week my dad was dying. His cancer diagnosis came out of the blue and he died within 10 days of diagnosis. I was 30, married with 2 kids, mortgage et al, but nothing compared to the depth of the experience of that last week with dad.

I had had to fly to another country to be with him. When I returned to work, I really felt as though no one should recognise me; I felt such a completely different person to the one who had left.

So that was when I grew up....however 20 years later, our adult children do frequently tell us off for silly behaviour ( being chased round the garden by dh with hose was a fun example to the newlyweds next door as to how 30 years of marriage doesn't need to be all cocoa & slippers!)

I would say similar to this - dealing with the death of someone close to you makes you a different person.


I am still fun loving - and love playing games, love Christmas, love snow, love going out and dancing around like a 20 year old - but I know I have the strength to cope with life now, I can act whatever way I chooses, but I am also very responsible.

moneyistooshorttomention

.Gigolo_Aunt wrote: »

I'm not sure why on earth they've brought back leggings either! They looked awful enough on most women's legs the first time round, back in the 80s.

Some of us can wear leggings - a cynics take is they were brought back by other women who can wear them;)

Though I know what you mean - but jeans also look :eek: imo on women who can't wear them but do.

.Gigolo_Aunt

moneyistooshorttomention wrote: »

Some of us can wear leggings - a cynics take is they were brought back by other women who can wear them;)

Though I know what you mean - but jeans also look :eek: imo on women who can't wear them but do.

Maureen Lipman nailed it when she said that two groups of people look alright in tight leggings - 9 year old girls and jockeys. You're right about jeans and (oh Lord!) jeggings, too.

AndyBSG

At 39 years old I still don't feel like an 'adult' despite being a married father with a mortgage and serious job.

I still play video games and still have a very juvenile sense of humour.

Getting a mortgage, wife and kid are the 3 things that have made me feel more like an adult but I still don't seem to believe it 100%.

In particular when the wife drags me along on nights out with her friends and their OH's I do look at them and find it hard to liken myself to her friends husbands who all seem like real adults compared to me!

Guest101

The phrase 'in my day' is uttered on an hourly basis...

jaydeeuk1

I'm 35 and finally feel like a grown up because I now have a lawn.

bugslet

:Djaydee, well done on the lawn. made me laugh

Andypandyboy wrote: »

When your parents die, and you realise you are the oldest generation....

Nope, didn't for me. Lost both of them before 30 and no siblings. Still felt not properly gorwn up.

ska_lover wrote: »

I still don't feel grown up. However I wouldn't dream of dressing like I am a teenager in mini skirts these days

AndyBSG wrote: »

At 39 years old I still don't feel like an 'adult' despite being a married father with a mortgage and serious job.
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In particular when the wife drags me along on nights out with her friends and their OH's I do look at them and find it hard to liken myself to her friends husbands who all seem like real adults compared to me!

No I don't feel like one yet and I'm 52 - not sure I ever will. Even losing Mr Bugs a few years back, didn't make me feel grown up, in fact I'd say it made me feel the reverse. And I've got 23 staff, so I should definitely feel proper growed up an' all, instead most of the time I feel like I'm still playing at it:o