Failure to Launch Quotes

“But these life transitions are also times of heightened vulnerability and uncertainty, when newly required skills and capabilities are still works in progress and very much unproven. Sheehy writes, “With each passage from one stage of human growth to the next, we . . . must shed a protective structure. We are left exposed and vulnerable—but also yeasty and embryonic again, capable of stretching in ways we hadn’t known before.”
― Mark McConville, Failure to Launch: Why Your Twentysomething Hasn't Grown Up...and What to Do About It

“common denominator among all of them is that they lack key skills that will help them make the leap from adolescence to adulthood. Skills like administrative responsibility (paying bills, making appointments, meeting deadlines) or the cultivation of interdependence (knowing how and when to constructively ask for help—like when you need to open a bank account, make a budget, or understand a lease) are key aspects of, as the kids call it these days, “adulting.”
― Mark McConville, Failure to Launch: Why Your Twentysomething Hasn't Grown Up...and What to Do About It