How To Stop Comparing Timelines In Your Early 30s
We Met At Acme
Dear Media, Lindsey Metselaar
4.2 • 2.5K Ratings
🗓️ 22 February 2026
⏱️ 42 minutes
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Summary
On today’s solo episode, I discuss keeping the spark and continuing to date your husband, questions to know if you’re ready to move in together, tips for long distance relationships, pre-engagement conversations, wedding planning in your late 30s, and playing it cool when you want to marry someone.
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Chapters:
01:03 Keeping the Spark Alive in Long-Term Relationships
05:38 Ready to Move In? The Questions You Need to Ask
11:44 Long-Distance Relationships: The Non-Negotiables for Making It Work
17:49 Stop Comparing Timelines in Your 30s (fertility, anxiety, ‘hurry up’ mindset)
22:54 Pre-Engagement Reality Check: Readiness, Rings, and the ‘Unsexy’ Money Talks
30:37 Playing It Cool + Wedding Planning in Your 30s
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| 0:00.0 | The following podcast is a dear media production. |
| 0:18.0 | Hey guys, welcome back to We met at Acme. I have just given both my children a bath. And now that the chaos is over, I'm going to introduce this episode to you. It is a solo episode. And we'll be talking about a few different subjects today, including keeping the spark alive and continuing to date your significant other. |
| 0:44.2 | Once you're past the infatuation stage, questions to know if you're ready to move in together, |
| 0:51.1 | pre-engagement conversations that are crucial, what wedding planning is like or should be like in your late 20s, long distance relationships and tips to make them work |
| 0:58.5 | and how to play a cool when you want to marry someone. So we'll be covering all of that. And it's a |
| 1:06.2 | quickie. I hope you enjoy. And I hope everyone had a great weekend and is enjoying their Sunday. |
| 1:13.1 | Hey guys. Welcome back to We Met at Acme. I am so excited to be doing another solo episode with you guys. |
| 1:20.1 | We actually got two solo episodes this month because of the bonus solo. So that's exciting for us. So we have a lot to cover. |
| 1:30.7 | So let's just get right into it. First, we're going to start with keeping the spark and continuing |
| 1:35.2 | to date your husband or your long-term partner. This is not easy. Let's be honest. We all know the easiest way to do this obviously is to travel because when you're in a different place with your partner, you are having so much fun. |
| 1:54.0 | You see them in a different light. |
| 1:55.0 | You're having more sex, all of the things. |
| 1:58.0 | But travel is not, like you can't just always travel every time you want to keep the spark. You have to the things. But travel is not, like, you can't just always travel every time you want to keep the |
| 2:03.7 | spark. |
| 2:04.7 | You have to do things that are, you know, that you can do in your daily life and that you can |
| 2:11.4 | practice. |
| 2:13.0 | And it's funny, I actually was just in a group chat with my girlfriend and her husband and Steven. |
| 2:18.3 | It's the four of us in a group chat. |
| 2:21.3 | And my friend's husband made a joke. |
| 2:25.3 | And my friend did like the ha-ha reaction to her husband's joke. |
| 2:30.3 | And I said to her, I was like, wow, you were flirting with him like you were that's like |
| 2:36.3 | the modern day flirt like that's the way that you can flirt now with your husband is by |
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