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The Reality of Adulting According to Cats

Growing up was a trap, wasn't it?Becoming an adult seemed a lot more exciting before it actually happened. Somewhere along the way, weekends stopped being about sleeping in and sta...

‘When did you realise you were grown up?’ – 17 moments when people felt the grim reality of adulthood kick in for good

According to the law, you’re an adult the minute you turn 18. However it often takes a lot longer for that message to sink in. That’s because even though you’re paying adult fares...

Nobody arrives at adulthood having figured it out, they just get better at delivering the lines with less visible panic,...

Something tends to arrive in your mid-thirties. You are in a meeting, or filling out a form, or standing in the hardware store trying to identify a type of screw, and you become su...

The Adulting Win Nobody Talks About (But Everyone Should Pursue)

For years, I chased the next paycheck. A quieter, smarter game — building real financial stability — went unplayed until it was overdue. There was a version of my adult life that l...

The Adulting Checklist No One Gives You After Graduation

Graduating can feel like crossing a finish line, until you realize there is an entirely new race waiting for you. One minute you are turning in assignments, studying for finals, an...

Ready to Start Adulting? Take These 11 Steps to Retire the Right Way

Adulting is hard, but if you follow these points, retirement can be easier.

Painfully Relatable Memes About Being An Adult

On being a mom of adults

Recently, two readers wrote me with similar questions. Here's one: Have you ever done a post about empty nest? My kids are 23, 21 and 20. My youngest is at home but is moving to th...

‘Not Suitable for Work’ Understands Why Being in Your Twenties Is So Hard

Not Suitable for Work captures the messy reality of adulting in your twenties with humor and heart

Things That Make Lubbock Adults Feel Like They Have Their Life Together

In Lubbock, it seems that adulthood is more about the little victories than grand achievements. Clean sheets and dinner plans say a lot about us. Continue reading…

What Childhood Lessons Can You Never Give Up?

The other day, I was lounging in bed, watching back-to-back Good Hang With Amy Poehler episode clips, as one does. During her interview with Tom Holland, the British actor admitted...

There is a version of growing up where you keep waiting to become the finished person who finally knows what they are do...

There is a version of growing up that a lot of people carry around without quite examining it. In this version, adulthood is not a permanent condition but a destination: somewhere...

Here’s Your Reminder To Take A Break

When you become an adult, it seems like it’s taken so long to get there. After years of wishing to be older, boom, there you are, and with that comes responsibilities. There are th...

The Blur of Growing Up

There is a distinct, quiet grief that comes with getting older.Continue reading on Medium »

Admin dates lighten daily tasks

FLAGSTAFF, Ariz. — Life tasks like paying bills, canceling subscriptions and answering overdue emails are becoming a reason to socialize for friends, couples, roommates and other p...

How to Be Twenty-Something (I Think)

Notes from the messy, beautiful process of becoming, growing up without a manual, and learning to live with the questions.Continue reading on Intersectionality »

Things I Wish I’d Done in My 20s

Your 20s are often described as the decade where you are supposed to “figure things out,” but most people are improvising far more than they admit. Some are building careers, other...

Somebody asked about annoying things people’s parents used to do that they ‘understand completely’ now they’re an adult...

We all go through a phase, usually quite a long one between the ages of about 10 and 25, when we think our parents are the weirdest, most tightfisted or boring people on the earth....

Quand devient-on vraiment adulte ?

À l’heure où l’âge adulte émerge en pointillé, sans rites de passage ni repères universels, la notion même de maturité se réinvente. The post Quand devient-on vraiment adulte ? app...

Being a good person in today’s world means making about forty small decisions a day that nobody will ever know you made,...

You see a colleague’s email at 9:47 in the morning and decide whether the tone you instinctively want to use is fair, or whether the person on the other end might be having a worse...

Adult children who watched a parent shake someone’s hand properly, thank the server by name, or hold a door without look...

It happened at a café a few months ago. The server brought over two coffees, set them down, and was about to turn away. I said thank you and used his name, reading it from the smal...

The working-mom framework that changed my life

Knowing how to distinguish rubber balls from glass balls makes all the difference.

Opinion | Adults without children often aren’t avoiding responsibility — many become the flexible support system others...

There is a familiar picture of the adult without children. Free weekends, no school run, savings untouched by university fees, a diary that answers to no one. And if often carries...

The generation now entering their seventies and eighties learned, in childhoods almost no one under fifty would recogniz...

The wellness and self-development industry has, in the last fifteen years, built a substantial business around teaching adults how to tolerate discomfort, sit with difficult feelin...