i'm at an age where people around me are getting into relationships, settling down or having kids. it's not that i want those things myself because i don't think i'm ready. but i do worry about finding community as more of my friends retreat into partnerships or nuclear families

you share these wonderful visions of what alternative communities can look like when you're young. but as you get older, people go in other directions. they retreat into traditional partnerships, sometimes with a twist. and you're happy for them, but you worry for yourself a bit

will those people be available if you, their single friend, needs to go to hospital, the dentist or some other place? will you be considered a burden or encouraged into a partnership so you can be someone else's prioririty instead of their 4th or 5th? not to be gloomy, but yeah