EP 567: When All Your Friends are Getting Engaged: How to Manage Timeline Anxiety

Let’s Get Vulnerable: Relationship and Dating Advice

Dr. Morgan Anderson

Mental Health, Relationships, Society & Culture, Self-improvement, Health & Fitness, Education

4.6 • 1.1K Ratings

🗓️ 4 August 2025

⏱️ 23 minutes

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It’s your host, Dr. Morgan, and in this episode, we’re getting real about wedding season; the comparison traps, the loneliness, and the inner dialogue that so many of us face when everyone around us seems to be finding “the one.” I share how to reframe jealousy and turn it into clarity about your desires, while fully honoring your unique timeline. If you’re single right now and struggling, this one’s for you. 🩵

I open up about the pain comparison creates and how jealousy can actually be a powerful teacher.
I give you the mindset tools to surrender to your own timing and invest in your healing instead of spiraling.
I remind you why your worth has nothing to do with your relationship status — and how to build a life you're proud of now.

I want to personally invite you to stop your patterns of unhealthy relationships and finally choose yourself. You deserve to do the inner work that will support you in becoming securely attached, so you can easily attract the relationships you deserve.

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0:00.0	Welcome to the Let's Get Vulnerable podcast. I'm your host, Dr. Morgan Anderson, psychologist, relationship coach, attachment theory expert, creator of the ESL relationship method, author of Love Magnet and Athletic Wear Connoisseur. My mission is to help you raise yourself worth, have great relationships, and step confidently into the next level of your life.
0:22.3	Each week, two episodes will air featuring expert advice, live coaching, and tips, showing you
0:28.4	exactly how to improve your life and attract a healthy relationship. You deserve to feel empowered,
0:34.8	secure, and love. Buckle up and Let's Get Vulnerable. Welcome to the Let's Get
0:43.4	Vulnerable podcast. I'm your host, Dr. Morgan, and today's episode is answering an audience
0:50.4	question. I have had this question a lot over the years, and I've felt time to readdress
0:57.5	this because it's wedding season, y'all. I mean, I myself am getting married. I know so many
1:04.3	people getting married, and I'm an elder millennial. I'm 35. It's also, I feel like the season of life that I'm in, it's just so many people in my
1:14.1	life are getting married. And I feel like that also happened for me around 25. So it's like the people
1:20.9	that didn't get married at 25. Now there's a whole new resurgence of weddings in my social group.
1:32.0	And of course, you can just look on social media and you can see all the weddings that are happening this summer. Hannah Brown just had a
1:38.3	beautiful wedding. I think it was in France. Anyways, there's a lot going on in terms of witnessing other people,
1:50.8	having love, finding their person, having this wedding. And there's so many of you that say to me,
2:00.1	what do I do when all my friends are getting married,
2:03.5	when everybody I know is in a happy, healthy relationship, and I'm over here struggling,
2:09.8	and I'm comparing myself, and I'm annoyed that everybody else in my friend group is married,
2:15.4	and I'm not. How do I not freak out about timeline
2:21.0	anxiety? How do I not crash out when it feels like I'm playing musical chairs? Everybody
2:28.7	else got the memo to sit down, aka, get married, and I didn't, and I'm just out here by myself.
2:36.8	We are going to talk about this because I want to just give you real practical advice
2:42.3	on how can we reframe this and how can we actually use this experience to our advantage.
2:49.3	Okay.
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