15 Adult Terms That Make Millennials Nauseous

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As millenials we’re staying younger, longer — mentally at least. Biologically, we’re still aging at a totally normal pace, which can catch us off guard. We’re a generation that is encouraged to follow our dreams instead of taking the safe, 9 to 5, 401K with benefits path. We’re told to marry later, cohabitate for at least five years first, and have kids in our late thirties. And you know what? It’s not a bad plan.

Some could argue that the reason divorce rates have been so high is that they represent a generation that was pressured to marry young when they didn’t know who they were yet, or who their partners were. Some could argue that the reason some of the most intuitive technology has been created in the last decade, is because college grads were encouraged to live with their parents while they worked on an app rather than get a job. But for all of these same reasons, there are a lot of adult terms that we just don’t get.