What are the chances this young man will ever launch?

[Anonymous]

Zero chance that there isn't something wrong with him. Nobody is that lazy and barely curious about life and outside world.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Zero chance that there isn't something wrong with him. Nobody is that lazy and barely curious about life and outside world.

Plenty of men fail to launch and spend the rest of their lives living with their mothers forever. Growing up, there were two on my block alone. Grown ass men living with their rich widowed or single mothers. Forever.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Young man, aged 20. Didn’t attend college. Has never held a job of any kind, but did once give up on a paid internship after one week. Splits 50/50 living arrangement with mother and father. Drives car father paid for with gas mom pays for. No clue how everything else is paid for, but assume it’s the same. Never outdoors cutting grass or otherwise helping around the house. Not disabled.

What does his life look like in 10 years?

You don't know the family well enough to know how things are paid for, but you think you know them well enough to sit in judgment and assume he is not disabled?

More important question to ask: how is this any of your business, and how sad is your life that you've come here to gossip about it?

[Anonymous]

A lot of positive change can happen from ages 20 - 30. I was similar to this at 20 except I was in school. I had zero work experience at that age and didn't even know how to drive.

[Anonymous]

He should move to NYC and brag about affordable NYC is when he manages his allowance well, like a good high-class girl.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Why do you care?

Indeed. If he's not your son or brother, MYOB.

[Anonymous]

Sounds just like my husband's nephew. Cue 10 years ahead and it looks like this: Has not worked aside from a 3-week stint at the Amazon warehouse, took one class at NOVA and failed because he only went twice (it was chemistry -- take a good guess why he wanted to take that), wakes up his widowed mother at night yelling and laughing while gaming online (even though she has to be up at 5 for work), games all night and sleeps all day, house smells like pot, and he gets money by taking out cash when he uses his mother's debit card at the store (it is the only help she gets from him -- he goes and shops for groceries so he can get cash back from the debit card ... she pretends she doesn't know). Put up with it now, this is what you get.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Young man, aged 20. Didn’t attend college. Has never held a job of any kind, but did once give up on a paid internship after one week. Splits 50/50 living arrangement with mother and father. Drives car father paid for with gas mom pays for. No clue how everything else is paid for, but assume it’s the same. Never outdoors cutting grass or otherwise helping around the house. Not disabled.

What does his life look like in 10 years?

Hard to write anyone off at 20 but if he lived in same neighborhood, one nosy neighbor would always be providing him free monitoring service. Good for his security.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Young man, aged 20. Didn’t attend college. Has never held a job of any kind, but did once give up on a paid internship after one week. Splits 50/50 living arrangement with mother and father. Drives car father paid for with gas mom pays for. No clue how everything else is paid for, but assume it’s the same. Never outdoors cutting grass or otherwise helping around the house. Not disabled.

What does his life look like in 10 years?

Hard to write anyone off at 20 but if he lived in same neighborhood, one nosy neighbor would always be providing him free monitoring service. Good for his security.

Huh?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Young man, aged 20. Didn’t attend college. Has never held a job of any kind, but did once give up on a paid internship after one week. Splits 50/50 living arrangement with mother and father. Drives car father paid for with gas mom pays for. No clue how everything else is paid for, but assume it’s the same. Never outdoors cutting grass or otherwise helping around the house. Not disabled.

What does his life look like in 10 years?

Hard to write anyone off at 20 but if he lived in same neighborhood, one nosy neighbor would always be providing him free monitoring service. Good for his security.

Huh?

Haha!

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Sounds just like my husband's nephew. Cue 10 years ahead and it looks like this: Has not worked aside from a 3-week stint at the Amazon warehouse, took one class at NOVA and failed because he only went twice (it was chemistry -- take a good guess why he wanted to take that), wakes up his widowed mother at night yelling and laughing while gaming online (even though she has to be up at 5 for work), games all night and sleeps all day, house smells like pot, and he gets money by taking out cash when he uses his mother's debit card at the store (it is the only help she gets from him -- he goes and shops for groceries so he can get cash back from the debit card ... she pretends she doesn't know). Put up with it now, this is what you get.

She probably prefers that to living by herself. Sometimes there is enmeshment.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Young man, aged 20. Didn’t attend college. Has never held a job of any kind, but did once give up on a paid internship after one week. Splits 50/50 living arrangement with mother and father. Drives car father paid for with gas mom pays for. No clue how everything else is paid for, but assume it’s the same. Never outdoors cutting grass or otherwise helping around the house. Not disabled.

What does his life look like in 10 years?

You don't know the family well enough to know how things are paid for, but you think you know them well enough to sit in judgment and assume he is not disabled?

More important question to ask: how is this any of your business, and how sad is your life that you've come here to gossip about it?

+1000

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Young man, aged 20. Didn’t attend college. Has never held a job of any kind, but did once give up on a paid internship after one week. Splits 50/50 living arrangement with mother and father. Drives car father paid for with gas mom pays for. No clue how everything else is paid for, but assume it’s the same. Never outdoors cutting grass or otherwise helping around the house. Not disabled.

What does his life look like in 10 years?

Hard to write anyone off at 20 but if he lived in same neighborhood, one nosy neighbor would always be providing him free monitoring service. Good for his security.

Huh?

Haha!

This made me chuckle