I feel left out and jealous after my housemates have decided to move out and buy a flat together

Sometimes it feels like I’m stuck at one stage in my life, while everyone else is moving on to another

DEAR DEIDRE: TWO of my housemates are buying a flat together and moving out, and I feel left behind.

My four friends and I have lived together happily for five years and, even though I’m pleased for them, I’m also jealous and sad about it.

I’m a 26-year-old single guy, and they are both 27 and in a couple.

The four of us have shared the same house since we graduated from university.

We all get on so well. We cook together, watch movies and have parties. It is like real-life Friends.

Everybody does the housework and pays their share of the bills on time – which I know doesn’t happen in a lot of house shares.

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But my two friends have said they feel it is time to live as a couple.

They are both in high-paying jobs and have been saving, so can afford to get a mortgage.

My job isn’t well-paid and I can’t save anything, so I don’t know when I will ever be able to buy a flat.

Now, my other housemate and I have to move out of our house and rent somewhere cheaper, or we need to find two strangers to be new housemates.

Things won’t be the same. I have been single for years and I can’t see that changing.

Sometimes it feels like I’m stuck at one stage in my life, while everyone else is moving on to another. It is really getting me down.

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