Early adulthood is marks the end of childhood and the beginning of adulthood which is a time of significant change in one's life and is often very stressful. Early adulthood can be defined in the legal sense and the psychological sense (Seal 1997: 71). In legal terms, adulthood is granted by the government at the age of 18 or 21 depending on different activities. In the psychological sense, adulthood is discerned by two seemingly contradictory possibilities; the achievement of independence, being responsible for one's actions as well as being untied from parents and interdependence, the ability to make new commitments and being intimate in interpersonal relationships (Seal 1997: 71). Of the two key challenges in early adulthood; achieving independence from parents and establishing intimacy instead of isolation, the latter is the most important one to address. This essay will firstly explain what the two challenges stated. Following that, the main similarities and differences will...