Hardest Part About Growing Up?

As a guy, the hardest part growing up you’ll realize is when you’re about 13 years old.

It’s really hard and it’ll stick with you basically until you die. It controls you even if you think you got it “under” control. It’ll pop out of nowhere and make you ashamed of being who you are.

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Losing touch with friends

Saying goodbye to your friends :(

Reality Strikes wrote:

Realizing your parents aren't that smart.

As you get older still, you will realize every day how wrong you really are.

Hopefully it won’t be too late to tell them so :)

pond scum wrote:

As a guy, the hardest part growing up you’ll realize is when you’re about 13 years old.

It’s really hard and it’ll stick with you basically until you die. It controls you even if you think you got it “under” control. It’ll pop out of nowhere and make you ashamed of being who you are.

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My son was 6 or 7 years old, got his first b*ner. Totally freaked him out. Comes running up to me, screaming “Dad! Fix it!!!”

I know this thread has a lot of joke responses, but the realization that your parents are just regular people with normal mistakes and normal shortcomings is tough. It shouldn't change anything about your relationship with them in reality. And truthfully, once you remove that shiny coating that says that they are perfect individuals that have lived an ideal life with ideal characteristics, you can actually look to them to provide you with real insight into life's challenges. For instance, maybe you're scared at age 28 at the prospects of getting married and having a kid. But your parents were married at 22 and had their first at 24. Even though you have since discovered that they are not perfect individuals and maybe in your case are no that smart, perhaps they have a lot of insight into whatever you're going through.

Although this is just an example. Perhaps you have made this realization and now think that you have somehow outgrown them and whatever they have to offer simply because you've now lived outside of their basement for 6 months and have the whole world figured out.

The hardest thing about growing up for me was the high school/first-love breakup. We were best friends in middle school, flirting buddies through early high school, dated junior and senior year. She went to college and I stayed home. We were going to try long distance and it lasted maybe two weeks before she emailed me (this was 2006) that she needed a "break" to "find herself" We all know what that means, and today I don't blame her, but at 19 years old I was obliterated. I haven't really fully gotten over it, even though it was over a decade ago, and I'm happily married. That one sticks with you.

I've since dealt with much worse, but none of that has stayed with me like that first real heartbreak.

just think.. there was a time when you set you g.i. joe, hotwheels, stretch armstrong..etc or whatever down and never played again.. sure as "adults" we try to "play" but not with the same depth of imagination.

Society will shun you for marrying your cousin.

Tell me more about those "much worse" things.

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