Young adulthood
The stretch where everyone appears to be further along than you, and nobody is describing it accurately.
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What this is about
First jobs, first cities, first serious relationships, and the slow discovery that the structure school provided is gone and nothing replaced it. Comparison is constant and mostly against edited material. Meanwhile the family timeline for marriage, savings and stability is still running, and it does not care that the ground has changed.
What work here looks like
Therapy at this stage is often less about crisis and more about working out which of the expectations you are carrying are actually yours.
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Where this often overlaps.
