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Why You Feel Like You’re Failing at Adulting (Even Though You’re Not)

Why You Feel Like You’re Failing at Adulting (Even Though You’re Not)

Friday, August 8, 2025
It’s a random Tuesday night in August, and you’re staring at a kitchen table that’s equal parts unopened mail, a pile of returns you keep forgetting to make and a to-do list you’ve already stopped looking at. Your phone lights up — one friend’s posting vacation photos from a beachfront bungalow, another just announced they…