Peer Pressure Beyond Your Teens? -Let's Talk

 Do you think that Peer Pressure lives beyond your teen years?

I'm 27 currently and before time, I could have sworn peer pressure only existed in high school. The pressure to fit in, to have friends, relationships, good grades, bad grades, a cool image, etc. Whatever it is, you name it, I thought it all only existed in high school, however, when I got older and stepped into adulthood I realize that peer pressure is still ever-present and even stronger. 

Instead of just being comfortable single, you're pressured to be in a relationship and if you're in a relationship, you're either pressured to be single or married. Have premarital sex. And, God forbid, if you're married more than 6 months and don't have a child, or a house, and at least two cars. 

You have to have a nice job, because why don't you?

The latest cars, the nice body, the happy family. 

Pressured to look and try to present this image that we are more successful and simply fine than we are. 

 

It's hard to keep up. 

Of course, not all peer pressure is bad. Some actually motivate us to do more than sit in our comfortableness, but when it feels as if you are doing something you personally and morally won't ever do and it is spiking your anxiety to just stay in the run, then it's a no go. 

So, do you still struggle with peer pressure?

To fit into the crowd? 

The need to change because of the friends you want to have?

Let's talk!