Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Except those damn facts don’t actually prove this out.

Increasingly, only college educated people are getting married and the average marriage age is the highest it has ever been at 27 for women and 29 for men.

Averages are slow to react and don’t tease out the trends. The rich and the rich and pretty influencers set the trends.

Wrong again…they looked at marriage rates just in the year 2023 and they keep trending older.

I have no doubt 2024 won’t show any difference.

But sure, you can believe that a Hollywood couple represents America.

Rich are the trendsetters in the States. The Freakonomics professors famously predicted the future most popular baby names by digging into which niche names were trending among the rich. Young and pretty rich kids getting married and sharing gorgeous engagement and wedding photos on social media is a powerful driver of this trend. There is also tremendous pushback against serial dating and dating apps. Dating app use is crashing. Zoomers dread the idea of being 30 and unmarried.

Again…the most recent statistics don’t support this. In early 2025, we can see what they say about 2024.

You can spout bullshit all you want, but when the actual very recent facts don’t support it at all, sometimes you need to raise the white flag and just shut your hole.

Getting married as a recent college graduate to another recent graduate is a major flex. You were interesting enough to date, and more importantly could afford to date. As a man you can afford to take her out and to be reasonably well-groomed and not a loser nor a dork. As a woman you can afford to doll yourself up, something that costs real money.

Go visit the campus of a Southern land grant university or a reasonably prestigious private college. How do you identify the people with prospects? Not in the classroom nor in the library. Rather you want to see who belongs to the best fraternities and sororities. These are the people who can afford Greek life, learn how to network, and know how to have fun whenever they want. They’re the men who you know will be your management in 10 years, and the women who make your jaws drop. The men aren’t any more capable than the financial aid kids, and the women aren’t inherently prettier. But they can afford the networking, the gym memberships, the leisure time and the cosmetics to maximize themselves. That’s just how it is.

This is a beautiful starter marriage for both of them and I wish them both the best of luck. She will treasure those gorgeous pictures of herself in that dress forever and my guess is that they will part the best of friends sometime in the next 3 to 8 years. But who cares? It’s basically like living together but you get to have a fabulous party.

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Anonymous wrote:Now that it's hard to afford a house, and careers aren't stable at all, why wait?

What was ever the point of wasting your 20s on drunken hookup culture, dating apps, travel, and consuming? Married to a career, while your looks and fertility slipped away. We were discouraging our kids not to fall in love in college because that was destined to fail, it was somehow low and unsophisticated to marry young, and they should only be focused on a career. Such terribly destructive advice pushed on young adults the last few decades.

you would be wrong. it’s terribly destructive advice to encourage people too young to marry.

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Except those damn facts don’t actually prove this out.

Increasingly, only college educated people are getting married and the average marriage age is the highest it has ever been at 27 for women and 29 for men.

Averages are slow to react and don’t tease out the trends. The rich and the rich and pretty influencers set the trends.

Wrong again…they looked at marriage rates just in the year 2023 and they keep trending older.

I have no doubt 2024 won’t show any difference.

But sure, you can believe that a Hollywood couple represents America.

Rich are the trendsetters in the States. The Freakonomics professors famously predicted the future most popular baby names by digging into which niche names were trending among the rich. Young and pretty rich kids getting married and sharing gorgeous engagement and wedding photos on social media is a powerful driver of this trend. There is also tremendous pushback against serial dating and dating apps. Dating app use is crashing. Zoomers dread the idea of being 30 and unmarried.

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Anonymous wrote:What about the other trend of not marrying at all?

I have coworkers with babies who are not married.

This is the actual trend. But it doesn't fit in with the current narrative being pushed

+1
Seems like the few pro-birthers and conservatives are really pushing this "get married young! Have lots of babies! Who cares what happens after!" story.

Brunch granny gets the last laugh.

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Except those damn facts don’t actually prove this out.

Increasingly, only college educated people are getting married and the average marriage age is the highest it has ever been at 27 for women and 29 for men.

Averages are slow to react and don’t tease out the trends. The rich and the rich and pretty influencers set the trends.

Wrong again…they looked at marriage rates just in the year 2023 and they keep trending older.

I have no doubt 2024 won’t show any difference.

But sure, you can believe that a Hollywood couple represents America.

Anonymous wrote:Except those damn facts don’t actually prove this out.

Increasingly, only college educated people are getting married and the average marriage age is the highest it has ever been at 27 for women and 29 for men.

Averages are slow to react and don’t tease out the trends. The rich and the rich and pretty influencers set the trends.

Anonymous wrote:Now that it's hard to afford a house, and careers aren't stable at all, why wait?

Yes it's a signal of unsure futures

Except those damn facts don’t actually prove this out.

Increasingly, only college educated people are getting married and the average marriage age is the highest it has ever been at 27 for women and 29 for men.

Anonymous wrote:I encourage every young man I know to go to divorce court for a day and sit there. Then decide if it's worth it.

Once they see these guys get cleaned out they'll reconsider.

I'm a Millenial and for most of my friends the woman out earns the man these days

Anonymous wrote:So, will Gen X and Gen Z soon become grandparents sooner than expected? I don't think I'll be ready to be a grandma when my oldest is 22-25!

I'll still have a kid at home when my oldest is 24!

I encourage every young man I know to go to divorce court for a day and sit there. Then decide if it's worth it.

Once they see these guys get cleaned out they'll reconsider.

Anonymous wrote:Nah, the rich kids always got married young in their 20s. They already had a career mapped out for them and financial safety net in case the marriage floundered.

+1 hardly new or a norm. Let’s see some actual data.