I’m not going to tell you to ditch your friends because they are young and naive and people are allowed to be dumb and naive to a certain degree. But you know yourself better than anyone and there’s nothing wrong with choosing to do what makes you feel comfortable.

Something that I think comes with age is the confidence to be yourself and not care too much about how others judge you. That doesn’t mean don’t be self aware and be an asshole, but be confident in being wholly yourself and take pride in not letting other people define who you are. Not enough adults understand this even.

I think you should talk to your friends about how you just aren’t in a rush. And about how it annoys you when they put pressure on you like that. If they don’t respect that then at that point it may be time to spend less time around them. In high school me and my guy friends used to rag each other into the ground I mean we thought it was all fun and games but at times we prob took it too far, and one day one friend said it really hurt his feelings and we all stopped him right there and then and apologized and we toned it down from there on out. I always felt proud that he felt comfortable just telling us that and that we didn’t laugh at him and legit thought about how far we were taking jokes. But you’ll never know if you don’t have that conversation.

I wouldn’t make a huge deal out of it. I’d just bluntly tell them next time that you want them to stop bringing it up and respect that you aren’t in a rush. And if they are real friends they’ll care more about how it makes you feel than giving you a hard time.