Professor Arnett would probably call Cheryssa Jensen an “emerging adult.” She calls herself a “grown-up kid.”
Julia Shaw
Julia Shaw is 28, just a year older than Cheryssa, but very different in the way she has lived her life so far.
“Do you feel like an adult?”
“[Pause] Yes.”
After earning a bachelor’s degree, Julia moved to Washington and married her 25-year-old boyfriend from college. By that time he was in law school. Julia began her career as a writer and political thinker. She and her husband have stayed in Washington, and have lived in the same small apartment for the last two years.
Julia says many people are surprised that she is married and settled in one place. But she believes she is more free than many other people of her generation.
“I’ve seen a lot of articles about millennials, where their parents are paying for their phone bills. They’re sharing Netflix accounts. A lot of people still are on their parents’ insurance. Their parents even supplement their incomes, even people as old as me. That really wasn’t an option for us when we got married. We saw each other as the person that we rely on. We’re not driving home to see our parents. We’re not relying on them for everything.”
Yes, the 20s is an unstable decade, she says, because people are doing so many things for the first time. But she says marriage has made her life more stable.
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