Not a thread about a threat, but inspired by several threads! Am I being unreasonable not to understand at what point do you change from being young to being an established adult? And am I being extra unreasonable, not to understand the consensus on how long a relationship is before it’s serious.
Obviously all of these things are a bit “how long is a piece of string”, but there seems to be a real divergence about when people are young, free and single and should be prioritising their career and when they are at the stage in life where they should be a proper adult who’s got some responsibilities etc. So just hoping to garner views!
I’ll go first. My view is that people are adults basically as soon as they time out of being somewhere between 18 and 21. But that everybody needs help sometimes and you can’t expect people to be completely independent overnight. And I think any relationship which stretches more than 18 months is serious but that does not mean it’s time to propose! I think that I think there are more stages between casual/single and marriage.