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Your timeline isn't late. It's customized.

Your timeline isn't late. It's customized.

(And no, you don’t need to explain it to anyone.)

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Julie Lauren
May 27, 2025
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There’s this moment that hits - usually at a wedding, or a baby shower, or when you're sitting in traffic and your brain decides to throw a montage of everyone else's life milestones at you like it's a passive-aggressive Spotify Wrapped.

It sounds like:
“She just had her second baby.”
“He just proposed on a mountain with a drone, a ring box, and three angles of surprise.”
“They bought a house with a breakfast nook and a mortgage rate you’ll never get.”

And even if you’re grounded and self-aware and have zero interest in building a snackle box for toddlers, some part of you wonders…Am I behind?

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