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When peers' parenting milestones highlight your stagnation

I see my college friends posting about their kids starting school and I realize I have been stuck in the same place for five years while their lives moved forward.

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More people experience this than they realize.

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Others' progress can make our suffering feel like a form of time travel where we are always yesterday.

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