I feel irrationally awkward/uncomfortable with the fact my SO, of 8 years, brother asked his girlfriend to marry him before my SO asked me

Well the only reason I put any importance on him asking is because he wants to get married before starting a family and it is important to me that we start a family in my early 30s not mid or late. I have no problem with starting a family first but he’s the one who wants to get married first... But I guess there might be a part of me that feels a bit hurt that it’s taken so long to ask me cause we’ve been talking about it for so long and I have put off our original plans of starting a family for him to ask me and he still hasn’t. Although we have been looking at rings and he says he has a plan and most recently, before his brother announcement, said it would be in the next few months but now I don’t know if he will because it would be so weirdly close to his brother. I guess that might be why the whole thing makes me uncomfortable I’m worried he’s going to put it off even longer and in turn delay starting a family even longer.

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