Adult versus ‘adulting’

When did you feel like an adult…? I met up with a friend I hadn’t seen for a while and so we were catching up. She’s just moved in to a new house that her and her husband have recently bought. And me and my partner (not husband) are in the process of buying our first home together too. So naturally our catch up was dominated by house-talk. Which is quite an adult conversation to have. But there’s a problem. I don’t know if I can call myself an adult. Going on my age of course I am. (Almost 30). But I’m not sure if I would refer to myself as an adult. I do adulting things. I adult. But can I comfortably call myself an adult? I’m just wondering at what stage did you realise – wow I’m an adult? I know I am but I’m just waiting for that realisation to hit me. I have a lot of ‘adulting’ things. House, job, pension. Maybe its not being married or having another life-form to look after whether pet or baby human. But the whole married thing, I can’t see that changing that much (me and my partner/boyfriend have been together for 10 years). Sometimes I just feel that I’m pretending being an adult. Yes we both have responsibilities and all that. But am I just pretending? For my friend is wasn’t getting married, emigrating to another country or even buying a house, it was the fact that she had a dog to look after. Another life form that needs her. I know I’m an adult. I just haven’t had that boom! you’re an adult yet. Did that happen to you? When did you realise that you’re an adult? – Because after all now ‘age is just a number’.