When did you start to feel like a grown up? (wife, father)

[Comedyshortsgamer]

just watched a video on youtube and this question so was wondering when did everyone else start to feel less like a kid and more like a grown up?

[G-fused]

I'm 42 and am pretty much an average 42yr old - wife, kid, dog, good career, huge mortgage, etc. So I'm well within grown up status. But when did I feel like one...for me, it's dependent on the activity. When defending and standing up for my family and what I believe in, I felt like one for a long time. When having fun, I still feel like a kid.

[Bonnie Jean McGee]

Im 50 and still not there -


Or should I say, I realized all those Grown Ups were just as immature as your average 5 year old.

[JayInCA]

At work, I feel like a grown up.

At amusement parks, baseball stadiums, concerts, etc.. I feel like a kid.

[Gab12]

My internship makes me feel like an adult. I work with people younger than me and I have had some who ask if I am married or if I have kids and I'm like "omg how old do I look"

[germaine2626]

I'm 63- almost 64, retired, married for 39 years, mother of adult children & a grandmother and I still feel like a kid most of the time.


However, I did feel like an adult when I assisted in planning my parents funerals.

[maggie2101]

After my parents died.

[randomparent]

The moment I saw that second blue line.

[oh-eve]

when I married and moved to the US. One of us had to be responsible and it wasn't in him so I had to grow up over night.

[Vectoris]

I was 28 and in that year, my father died and I gave birth to my first child. That, for me, was the quick transition from child to parent. Suddenly I was responsible for another life, and suddenly I no longer had my dad.