“No one, ever, will set boundaries for you. So learn to set them yourself.”
And yet, it’s been only a decade since the word “adulting” entered our consciousness, placed there by Kelly Williams Brown who wrote a bestselling book about it in 2013 called.
This was the millennial version of wanting to have it all: enjoying an extended period of carefree youth, while also having our shit together. Or giving the appearance of it, at least. Coming home from a house party at 5am and still changing thethe next morning . The reassurance that, yes, it is fine to eat toast for every meal, as long as you fold your clothes. Adulting seemed to present the solution – and we lapped it up.
So, 10 years on, with its readers now undeniably grown-up, what have we really learnt about adulting? When the book came out, I was swimming against the tide of my late twenties – living in a friend’s spare room after breaking up with my boyfriend, with most of my belongings stashed at my parents’ house, going out non-stop and ignoring words like “pension” and “ISA”. Brown’s advice was just the sort of thing that I, and others like me, wanted to hear – even if much of it was, frankly, what Mum and Dad had been telling us all along.
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