I’m 22 but also about to be a trainee solicitor, living from home while at uni and recovering from an eating disorder are we the same person??I am only 21 myself, and I feel like I am just as immature as Grace is. However, I aim to be a trainee solicitor by the time I am 23, so I do feel like I need to grow up a little bit myself. I live at home whilst I am studying at Uni and I am the youngest out of all my siblings. I am also recovering from eating disorder and so living at home with the support from my mum is very helpful right now. Unlike her though I have had boyfriends and I would say I am mature when it comes to certain issues. I think it really depends on personal circumstances and life experiences. But there is definitely nothing wrong with Grace being a little bit immature. She definitely seems happy and fulfilled which is all that matters.
Anyway grace is clearly happy within herself as a person and I think that’s much more mature than feeling the need to have a boyfriend just because people thinks she needs to “grow the duck up”. Plenty of my friends of her age have never had a serious relationship, the vast majority of the people I know still live at home because we live near enough a city like grace does. I know people move at different paces in life but it would be much weirder to me if one of my friends was married with kids at 23 than if they didn’t have a boyfriend. It must be a generational thing.