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The protagonist of this story found himself as the main character precisely because of his perceived inability to do almost anything for himself, despite being 24 years old. He recently moved in with his grandparents after living with his mom, in a bid to learn how to be more independent.
After a month of this arrangement, his aunt and cousins were already growing tired of the demand of his living nearby. He constantly tried to hitch rides with them instead of finding alternative transportation. However, his cousins still invited him to a party with some friends, and he agreed.
The man quickly decided that he did not want to be at the party when he got there, and tried to get his aunt to pick him up. She told him he would have to wait for his cousins if he wasn't willing to get an Uber or take the train. He told his mom about the incident, and she felt she was being unfair. The aunt wanted a second opinion.
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Am I wrong for not coddling my nephew?
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24-year-old moves in with extended family to learn independence, complains to mom when aunt refuses to pick him up early from a party with his cousins: 'If he couldn't handle being there, he could take a train'
Some people take longer to grow up than others.
The business of being an adult is complicated, and it takes a while to get it right. It could be argued that the majority of grown-up people who feel like they have never achieved whatever the heck it means to be competent at this so-called adulting. Pretty much everyone, even the most mature among us, has one or two things that they struggle with that they kind of assumed they would get the hang of when they were kids.
A big part of learning to become independent in this way starts in childhood. In theory, it is one of the most important jobs that parents have when they choose to have children. They aren't babies forever, and there comes a point where helplessness stops being mildly annoying and starts to be a real problem.
For various reasons, some have a harder time adjusting to adult life than others, and they will take more time to achieve those basic milestones that they should be capable of. Still, that doesn't mean that they should be sheltered from reality and allowed to stay in their comfort zone all the time.
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