Welcome to Mortification of Spin, a casual conversation about things that count with Carl Truman, Todd Pruitt, and Amy Bird.

Mortification of Spin is a weekly podcast from the Alliance of Confessing Evangelicals.

Let's join this week's conversation.

Thank you. Well, thanks for joining us.

We have a topic that I think we've hinted at periodically at various episodes,

but we want to tease out a little bit further. And it's this

idea of sort of never-ending adolescence or a trend that we see, certainly here in our own

culture, with the extending of adolescence, the extending of childhood, the extending of

irresponsibility. What do you think?

You know, how do we need to respond to this? What's going on? What are the causes of this?

I mean, I hear, for instance, I think maybe I hear about this situation the most from single women

who are oftentimes frustrated with the men their age who want to kind

of always be a frat boy or always be in the dating phase but have a hard time making adult

decisions and kind of perennially adolescent. So that's kind of what we want to delve into a little bit.

I would say even as a young married adult, I mean, I got married very young.

I was 21 and I was fresh out of college.

So that word adult is such a heavy word now, I think.

And even I was confused as a married woman.

I didn't feel like an adult still.

And I didn't know.

I remember thinking, okay, am I an adult when I start having kids?

I mean, I had my own business.

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