What moment in your life did you realize you were "all grown up"?

Question

When did you feel like you had really grown up and how old were you?

Answer 1

When my parents died. I was 19. I got thrown into a world I never had to deal with before.

Answer 2

I've had three children and a sixth grandchild on the way any day now, and I still don't feel grown up, used up sometimes, but not grown up. I feel like a fool sometimes and have way too much to learn to be a grown up. No not yet is the answer.

Answer 3

I dont think I am grown up at all maybe its coming I feel more responsible but personally feeling grown up i dont think ive hit that stage yet im 19 so i think i still have time left

Answer 4

i think i came out 15! lol ive always been alot more mature than everyone else my age...

at 6 months i was talking -- could carry an adult conversation a year later...

i cant ever remember thinking that i wasnt "grown up"

i lived in a small town (so yes it was safe) but i stayed home alone at 9....
but i think it really clicked to me when my dad died when i was 11... now almost 7 years later... people joke that i need to slow down.. because "im not 30" lol

Answer 5

When i discovered the meaning of life, 14.

Answer 6

When i bought a house at 29

Answer 7

When I went home after having my daughter and I was alone with her for the first time.

Answer 8

When I left home . . . I was 18, and I had to provide for myself (school, rent, utilities etc.)

That's when I learned the true meaning of bills. =)

Answer 9

When I started getting the bills.

Answer 10

When I went into labor. I was 26.