Emotional Transitions to Adulthood

Emotional Transitions to Adulthood

During the early part of adulthood major emotional transition takes

place. At the beginning of the adulthood lifestage you begin to

seprate from your parents and family and no longer rely upon your

peers to support you in a pratical way- such as doing your washing and

also in a emotional way, you begin to find that your parents aren't

such a big fixture in your life.

During our early adulthood we spend alot of our time finding a partner

and once we do we become emotionally attached and begin to rely upon

our spouse for support as we once did our parents. During our

adulthood we make the transition to 3 new roles- worker, partner and

parent and must adapt emotionally to fit these new roles.

Becoming a parent is a major life event which usually happens in

adulthood. As a parent you must learn to deal with a whole new type of

emotions and love which you possibly haven't felt before. Becoming a

parent creates a greater feeling of self- worth.

As life expectancy is increasing it is normal to have one parent

(usually mother) still living yet it is not uncommon to have to deal

with the death of at least one parent which is emotionally

unbalancing. Greif is, emotionally, one of the hardest life evnts to

deal with. It can take people years to get over the death of a loved

one and some people never recover and can't laearn to deal with the

huge sense of emptiness and loneliness the death of a loved one can

leave.

Towards the end of adulthood you have to deal with the feelings that

your children no longer need you, which can be particulary hard when

the youngest child leaves home as for most of ...

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out-lived their spouse retirement can be a very lonely time with few

chances to communicate with other people, particulary if they are

still in mourning which is quite common.

If they suffer from a disability it will likely effect their social

life. It can often leave a person house-bound which will greatly

effect their enjoyment of later adulthood.

In conclusion, a persons enjoyment of life during later adulthood

greatly depends on a variety things which leaves me doubtless in

thinking that will effect a persons social life. Some people find as

they get older their social becomes non- existent and it can also

appear that they are simplt waiting to die. However, for some people,

under the right circumstances their social life has never looked as

healthy and their best part of their life was during retirement.