You Become an Adult When You Set Boundaries with Your Parents Adult children are adults over the age of eighteen. Even if you live with your parents after that, you’re legally an adult, and their access to your life shifts. You
i wish this was explained to me. i think i’d been waiting for a magic moment. then maybe was waiting for an event. i was so milestone driven in understanding the transition from child to adult that i lived as someone else for so long. and it was harder to allow myself to set boundaries to step into adulthood.