I hope you can help me

السلام عليكم. I'm a 21-year-old girl. I haven't been in a romantic relationship. I want my first love, the first person I love, to be my husband in a halal way. But society dictates that you have to be in a relationship and love before marriage. All the girls my age are engaged and married, and my mother tells me I have to go out and meet boys in order to get married.