Quarter Life Crisis Relationships, part 2 of a 3 part series

Its very likely you are a good person and you have friends that are also good people. Then why is at any moment you can name at least one friend currently in a QLC Relationship?

To answer that question we must first acknowledge a divide in the Quarter Lifer camp. While most Quarter Lifers go about our days pretending we are unified by group dissilussionment and deep seeded resentment towards are parents that spoiled us so greatly that nothing but extreme wealth, success, or fame could ever make us happy. However, there is actually a great fracturing line amongst the Quarter Lifers...... Single Quarter Lifers and Couple Quarter Lifers

Both are somewhere in the age of 25-30 (sidenote 24 year olds still have a positive vigor, for proof check out the excellent http://freshfresca.blogspot.com/ written by a 24 year old aspiring chef who should still have that optimism for another year) and lead equally unfulfilling existences. Yet, every weekend the behavior differences of Single Quarter Lifers and Couple Quarter Lifers requires that we divide what was once thought of a solitary group.

On the weekends a Single Quarter Lifer will go to the new talked about bar in town. This Quarter Lifer will look around see a beatiful girl and out of nowhere a voice in its head will say "did someone I.D. that girl?" This awfull fight of maintaing youth and suppressing the natural development of maturity defines the weekends of most Single Quarter Lifers. The Single Quarter Lifer is also constantly posing himself this question "when my parents were this age were they thinking about payments on a mortgage or will I get away with sending that ridiculous drunk text." Usually the only answer to calm these inner battles is to begin excessive consumption of alcohol followed by a long, lonely, overpriced taxi-ride home.

In contrast, weekends for the Couple Quarter Lifer is a completely different experience. For this group weekends aren't so much a time for rest and relaxation, but instead an oppurtunity to complete "PROJECTS" that have been building up all week. CQLs apparently have maintenance problems and the need for aesthetic improvements that Single Quarter Lifers don't have. And a peice of advice, if a Couple Quarter Lifer tells you they have a "PROJECT" this upcoming weekend just leave it at that....you don't want to hear about it because its boring and it can be depressing and make you feel really old to hear how happy your friend is playing Bob Villa.

So what does all of this have to do with a QLC Relationship? The great migration from Single Quarter Lifers to Couple Quarter Lifers is what pushes most people into the QLC Relationship. You see once you first begin your Quarter Life Crisis around the age of 25 the Single Quarter Life camp is a very large bunch. You can sit around making fun of any Couple Quarter Lifer at home probably staying up making diagrams for the upcoming weekend "Project."

But with every year, more and more Single Quarter Lifers become CQLs. And my god, doesn't the SQL camp become an unsortly bunch around 28. All of a sudden the SQL crew looks more like a refugee camp for the ugly, emotionally undeveloped, and sort you would never let baby sitt your children. It is this need to go from the SQL camp to the CQL camp that will make a Quarter Lifer break down and enter a QLC Relationship.

Please Join Us at the Quarter Life Crisis Media Guide tomorrow when we explain why you have no reason to fear if your best friend has entered a QLC Relationship and diagram the 4 phases of QLC relationship.