It’s lonely being “ahead” of everyone?

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I know this sounds stupid and whiny lol but it’s actually really frustrating. My husband and I met when we were 19/21 and just got married a couple months ago at 22/24. We literally have 2 sets of friends who are married (and both live several hours away) and most of our other friends aren’t even in relationships.

I’m always hearing from my single friends about how lucky I am to be married already and I truly DO feel lucky, and of course I don’t regret marrying so young and I don’t love my single friends any less, but it just feels a little lonely that I really don’t have friends who are in the same stage of life that I’m in.

I feel like by the time my friends start getting engaged and married I’ll already be on baby #2 and won’t care about weddings anymore lol, and meanwhile while I was planning my wedding I really had no friends who could relate or who were into it as much as I was.

Like I said I am truly happy with my husband and feel so blessed to have found my person so young, but I’m just a little lonely and a little sad to feel like I’m always a few steps in front of my friends and don’t have anyone to talk to who can relate to what I’m going through.

Idk what I’m really looking for in this post haha, I guess just ranting, looking for people who feel the same or to tell me it gets better? 🤷🏻‍♀️