On the topic of alcohol....yeah...I know a lot of people who are already alcoholics in their early 20's. It's terrible. I was a horrible binge drinker up until March of last year...I could have been a lot worse, but I decided to not get to that point. My body and wallet are much happier without alcohol!

I have a brother who is a good bit older than me, but I always feel like I'm the older sister. He is a borderline alcoholic...and stays broke because of it. I tell him all the time it would be a lot easier to pay the rent if he weren't smoking 2 packs a day and drinking a bottle of wine every night...but hey, he's got his priorities, I guess...

Haha, I know how you feel! My older brother is bad...drugs, robbing a bank, and gambling put him right back where he spent all of his 20's--prison. Since he's been absent so much of our lives, I feel like the oldest sibling. A lot of people our age (20's, I mean) seem to have no priorities whatsoever. I know I've had friends get upset with me when I turned down invites to hang out or go out somewhere because I was studying/doing homework, had class, or had to work. These things are apparently not important.

I moved to CT when I was 20 - partly to be near the BF, partly because I liked his church / community and had nothing like it at home, and partly because we were getting fairly serious, and I wanted to have lived on my own before getting married, and also wanted to have lived in the same town as him before getting married. I've never been a big proponent of combining all my major life changes, I like spreading them out. We got married in May (I had lived here around 2 years I guess?) and its awesome.

My story is this: I recently got a promotion (to full time) with my job, and was having lunch with a coworker in another office I hadn't met before. She is probably in her 60s, and she innocently asked me if "I still live at home?" I was a little taken aback and I was like well... I live at my home... but not with my parents... She was super surprised I was married etc.

Hiya, I'm Kate.
I went along with most of my highschool friends and went right to university out of highschool at the age of 18. I have lived with my parents for only a couple of months at a time since then.
I graduated university after 3 years and then took off to England for a couple of months. I came back to Canada and quickly got a job down in Toronto and moved out on my own. Shortly afterwards an old friend (from uni) and I started dating and we have been together every since (2 and half years). Shortly into our relationship it was discovered that he had a son (who is now 2 and half), and after that things moved along pretty quickly for us. We have been living together for almost 2 years now and it has been wonderful. I like to call myself a "part time mom."
I am 24 years old and often times when I tell people that they find it hard to believe. I get told that I present more like a 30 year old than someone in their mid-twenties.
I still enjoy a good party, and joking around with friends. But I am someone who has not been under my parents roof since 18 years of age, and always been "mature for my age".
I have friendships that have ended because I am not understood by them. I am not the kind of person that can have causal sex and party every day of the week. I enjoy being at home with the people I love.
I am also a knitter... which I have been told (in a joking way) makes me look like a grandma

I am 23 years old, been married about 6 months now. I have been with my husband since I was 19. And although we are living at my parents house right now we will be building our home in the spring (was suppose to be last fall but things got behind in schedule). I have never been happier! We both want kids quite badly but we aren't in any hurry (especially since we are living in someone else's home right now). I seem to be right on par with my peers however, 1/2 the people i graduated high school with are already married or have kids and quite a few are engaged now. Maybe we just start young around here :-D

Im 20 years old, with a daughter who is soon to be 5, and a 9 month old son. I am also happily married. Everyone from high school obviously knew that we had a daughter when I was 15 and he was 18..But nowadays they are kinda shocked when I tell them we got married straight out of high school and had another baby. lol. Im a stay at home mom. My friends are in college, partying, working part time jobs, while Im at home with 2 children, married, and buying our first home.

Hey I just joined and I loved reading all these stories ^_^ I am 23 (24 in a few days) and will be celebrating my one year anniversary in a week and a half. I met my husband in my second semester at uni and got engaged a mere 8ish months later. I think we were already married in our hearts way before that because the only reason engagement and marriage took so long was money and school. I think that being young and settled means that I get longer to really enjoy my life, rather than longer to figure out how to enjoy my life ^_^

I am 20 now but when it all started I was 15 I met my current husband and we were best friends. We started dating when I was 17 and got married when I was 18. We have been happily married. No kids yet still trying to prepare a little(i know everyone says there is no way to really prepare), but I want to have some money saved up to be able to take care of a child.