Call it what you want, but a new life stage begins when we have serious responsibility for another human. For some this comes early, like a "child" looking aft

Call it what you want, but a new life stage begins when we have serious responsibility for another human. For some this comes early, like a "child" looking after a sick parent. For others (like me) this comes with having children. My wife and I look back on the years we thought we were adults, because we lived on our own, had jobs and a cat, and chuckle to ourselves at how grown up we thought we were. This type of pretending to be an adult we call "adulting".