What’s The Most Pivotal Moment Of Your Adulthood?

And how would you determine it?

Lots of easy answers for this one, including:

• My wedding
• The birth of my first child
• When I got my doctorate
• When my mom/dad passed away
• When I learned that ________
• When I got this promotion
• When I moved here for work

I bet about 70% of people would choose the first two buckets, and if not those, it would probably be something about career. That’s pretty standard when engaging around this question.

Now, I’ve been married twice, and had two weddings (although one was during COVID), and I can tell you that the marriage day is important, but it’s a flawed narrative to say it’s the greatest or most Pivotal day of adulthood. If that’s true, what about everything that comes after it? The wedding can’t really be the apex, or the marriage won’t be that great. I mean, right?

I’ve never had kids, so I haven’t experienced that joy. At this point, I would probably chop off part of my right leg to have someone emerge from a bathroom with a positive pregnancy test, or to be in the room when a newborn is delivered. I will likely never get either of those things, and at…