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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]I’m 38, married 11 years, have 3 kids, own my home, have a healthy retirement savings.

I’m absolutely dumbfounded by how few of my peers have progressed down the “normal” path of adulthood with me. I kept thinking they’d catch up to me at some point, but the door is closing. [/quote]

I am early 30's and the majority of my friends (1) own homes; (2) are married/engaged/cohabitating; (3) have kids or plan to start trying in the near future. I am constantly reading about the "struggling" delayed adulthood millennials in publications like NYT and I am just not seeing the reality. [/quote]

It's interesting.  I'm also early 30s, and I think most of my friend group is doing some of those things but few of us are doing them all.  That is, I have several friends who own homes, several friends who are married/engaged/cohabiting, and a few friends who are parents.  But not all are doing all or doing them in that order.  But an important thing, at least with my friend group, is that most of us are reasonably happy with not doing some of those things.  Those of us who don't own homes don't want them (or are making concrete plans to acquire them not having wanted them in our 20s), those of us who are not in relationships are fine with it, those of us without kids are mostly childfree by choice.  I think it's nice that we're moving away from a single model for how you're supposed to "adult."[/quote]

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