Okay....so I'm new.....

So I'm guessing this will begin as an introduction and morph into something else as I go along. My name is Dominique, I'm 18 yrs old, I'm married, pregnant with my first child and desperately trying to maneuver my way through this maze of a life. I was initially drawn to this website for the scholarship opportunity (which will probably be my primary motivation for posting blogs; hopefully someone will support my cause and read them). But I have also started to see it's potential as a platform to begin to have to others read my writing.
I've been thinking a lot about starting my own website and including articles. There's a problem though, websites cost money & you make money off the traffic to your site, so I have to build somewhat of a "fanbase" first. So here I am. Hopefully this will serve as a gage to enlighten me. Should I write for living? Do I have what it takes? Do I have something interesting to say? Will others identify with me?
............Lately I've wondered - am I the only one of my kind in exsistence? I've gone through a huge transition period over the last 4 months. I left school, I got married, I got pregnant, and I moved to a new state. So as one might expect, I lost a few friends along the way. And a little of my sanity as well.
Through all my reading and desperateness to make sense of all these changes I have learned it is perfectly normal to outgrow some relationships. So I've managed to come to terms with it. I've also learned that It's important to have friends; to get out and meet to new people and forge new relationships. But I'm having trouble meeting like minded individuals.
I want to meet other women like myself. Which brings me to my orignial question - are there other 18-year-old, married, pregnant, enterprsing women like myself? preferably in the tri-state area. An extra bonus would be if they had a husband deployin to Iraq as well. Am I alone?
Most young women my age have concerns like college, internships, boyfriends, etc. Most aren't married & with child. It's unfortunate to say, but most who are pregnant at this age aren't married and didn't plan it. Which would place them in a very different situation and mind set.
Women who are pregnant and married, are usually just outside my age bracket, which would affect how we'd relate to eachother. So how do I satisfy the natural need to relate to someone if I'm an endangered species?
If anyone has an insight, I'd wlecome it.

BTW - if you come across any grammatical or spelling errors I missed just let me know, THANKS!

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