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[quote=Anonymous]I think a true failure to launch is pretty extreme, but my DH's nephew is an example of it.

Applied to GMU, but didn't get in. Spent a couple of years not going to school at all and not working. Took two classes at NOVA, failed both for failing to go. Fast forward, is now 38 and still living with his mother who is now retired and over 70. I doubt he has worked for an entire year total between graduation from high school and now. He's tried a few jobs (Best Buy, the Amazon warehouse, etc), but never lasts more than a couple of months at the most. His mother swears she doesn't give him money. Yet he has plenty for weed and going out to eat with his friends. We know he steals from her, but she's probably giving him money as well.

That, folks, is a failure to launch. Well, it's probably failure to launch, plus. He lived with a girlfriend for a few months at one point, but that didn't last. Not shocking. He doesn't even help his mother out -- she has to pay someone to mow the yard. [/quote]

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