When was the first time you really felt like a grown up (if ever)?
I lived with my parents until I got married. I moved out of state with my husband two weeks after our wedding. It was a fourteen hour ride from the state that our parents lived in. My husband had moved after we graduated from college and I followed him after our wedding. I had quickly befriended an older women in our apartment building who had two young teenage boys. One day she asked me what I was making for dinner. It occurred to me that I was no longer living in my parents cozy three bedroom ranch house waiting for my mom to cook me dinner. I was now living in this dumpy apartment, I didn’t have a job yet and now I am responsible for cooking dinner. I didn’t even know how to cook! That was 27 years ago. I don’t remember what we had for dinner that night but I do know my transition into adulthood and married life was not a difficult one.
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