Job, career, or calling: How do you think about your work? What role do family and friends play in your life? Like it or not, our sense of purpose and goals are ever-changing. Here are some common challenges and dangers as you move through your life.

This stage involves starting out, exploring, learning, dating, and possibly marriage. Finding your place in the world. Learning how to be an adult with everything that comes with it—paying bills, buying cars, dating, maybe becoming a parent.

Challenges: How to get a foothold on the job ladder; how to find a partner; how to break away from parents and become more your own person; and how to create the start of a lifestyle that helps you discover who you are and what you need.

Dangers: Struggling to leave home, date, or find satisfying work, often due to anxiety, depression, or self-criticism.

After exploring and building in your 20s, you finally settle down, but........

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