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Happier with Gretchen Rubin

Little Happier: Do You Feel Like a Real Grown-Up? I Don’t.

Happier with Gretchen Rubin

Gretchen Rubin / The Onward Project

Education, Health & Fitness, Self-improvement

4.713K Ratings

🗓️ 13 December 2021

⏱️ 2 minutes

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Summary

On a trip to a department store, I told my husband, “We’ll buy the nice towels when we’re really grown up”—but we are grown up. I remind myself: This is my real life. Get in touch: @gretchenrubin; [email protected] Get in touch on Instagram: @GretchenRubin Get the podcast show notes by email every week here: http://gretchenrubin.com/#newsletter Order a copy of Gretchen’s new book OUTER ORDER, INNER CALM here: http://outerorderinnercalmbook.com Leave a voicemail message on: 774-277-9336 For information about advertisers and promo codes, go to happiercast.com/sponsors. Happier with Gretchen Rubin is part of ‘The Onward Project,’ a family of podcasts brought together by Gretchen Rubin—all about how to make your life better. Check out the other Onward Project podcasts—Do The Thing, Side Hustle School, Happier in Hollywood and Everything Happens with Kate Bowler. If you liked this episode, please subscribe, leave a review, and tell your friends! To learn more about listener data and our privacy practices visit: https://www.audacyinc.com/privacy-policy Learn more about your ad choices. Visit https://podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:00.0

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0:04.4

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0:30.1

I'm Gretchen Rubin and this is a little happier.

0:33.2

A while back, my husband Jamie and I needed to run an errand at a department store,

0:37.3

which is something that we almost never do together.

0:39.9

And while we were there, we decided to replace our very worn bath towels.

0:44.8

I picked up a stack of towels and carried them to the register.

0:48.1

Jamie asked, are these towels really nice?

0:51.5

And I said, they're fine. When we're really grown up, we'll get the nice ones.

0:56.8

I didn't think anything about it at the time, and Jamie didn't question it.

1:00.8

But later I asked myself, well, what was I talking about?

1:04.7

What I ever feel really grown up? I am grown up.

1:09.5

Sometimes it's hard to accept that I'm living my one true life.

1:13.8

As an adult, I've never lived the suburban life I experienced as a child,

1:18.0

and it seems sometimes as though it still awaits me.

1:21.7

A stage of life yet to happen when I'll drive in a carpool and worry about gutters.

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