What's an adult problem that you weren't prepared for?

When my mom had alzheimers and died

Losing your parents

Dealing with my aging parents. It’s like they’re becoming teenagers again. I’m just really glad I’m not the only child , the burden would be too much on me.

Being verbally attacked in the break room in front of my co-workers.

Being widowed, losing a child. My mother’s illness and subsequent death.

Living past 30. I mean I technically haven't yet but I honestly didn't plan on living this long. Now I've gotta shift priorities or something

Mental disorders... my life feels like a rollercoaster.

All the pain, and things not working efficiently anymore, it’s like our bodies hate us. 🙄

Even when you know someone is going to die, it leaves you unprepared. I never imagined losing not one, not two, but three people to suicide. My sadness and yearning for what may have been will never go away.

CKD. Was totally unprepared, but now I am prepared and will reverse it. I asked God for guidance and he has helped me to know what to do. Doctors lie. Not all, but some, but mostly they're not knowledgeable about such things, so they guess. Even stage 5 CKD can be cured and reversed. One just has to do their research. It is very important that one be their own health advocate.

BS fees snuck in everywhere. One time, I was switching car insurance companies. But I went a few days without insurance. I hadn’t driven in those few days, but that didn’t matter. I received a notice that that caused my car registration to be canceled, and that if I wanted it reinstated, I had to pay a fee on top of paying for registration again.
Registration itself, had BS fluffing up the cost. “Highway tax” and whatever “prison fee” was…An extra $100 for “government”? 🤨 Bunch of lie charges.

Finding out after nearly 49 years that I was adopted.

Being disabled. 🤔

Ptsd

Alot of adult type things are learning as you go and trial and error ..there's no way of truly preparing for most things

actually being an adult (:

getting old, and falling apart, lol

Inflation

Most things. I don't think you can really get prepared for stuff you haven't lived before. Maybe roughly in theory but the real thing? Nope.

Persistent back pain that feels like a stab 🔪

Julius Caesar, I feel you

$2500 refrigerators that don't last 10 yrs ..

Losing my brother and best friend.

All of them

Finding there was no money growing on the tree out back.

My Mom getting dementia and having to take care of her but being so conflicted about it because she abused me as a child.

Living with chronic pain and being disabled from it.

Stuff like that.

Having to not only cook dinner, but make the decision of what we're going to eat

Life

Nothing comes to mind that I didn't experience during my childhood.

When my paternal Grandfather was dying of cancer in 1992 when I was 22, everyone was coming to my younger cousins and myself for support because we lost our Dads when we were much younger, it made me very angry and bitter that my Dad's younger siblings were coming to us like we were licensed grief counselors, their Dad was an inlaw so they came to me the most.