Brad Wilcox

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Culture Apothecary with Alex Clark · Why You're Still Single & How To Get Married | Brad Wilcox · 5 Jun 2026 podcast

So when I teach at UVA, most of my students are kind of thinking about 30, if they thought about it, is the best time to get married.

30 years old.

30 years old, right.

And so they've, ducks in a row.

So you've got your education done, you've got

some measure of career success.

You feel like you've kind of gotten to know yourself.

You've had some time to have some fun.

So the thought is that, again, this sort of capstone model is the way to do it.

And what we see in the research, I think surprisingly for a lot of my students, is that a cornerstone model, where you're kind of getting married in your 20s, a little bit younger oftentimes, allows people to have more of a we before me approach to marriage, where they're kind of building a common identity as a couple, as a family.

better able to have the kids they would like to have getting started in their twenties and having children.

Um, they're also more likely to share a common faith if they're getting married, you know, cause their pool is, is more open in terms of picking someone who might be a good spouse.

And then they're also generally, according to most of the research that I've seen, more likely to be happily married.

So, um, people don't really kind of realize that postponing marriage, um, can have its, uh, its own downsides.

I mean, I certainly think for some people, kind of the social media thing is obviously very destructive.

Kind of having the sense you have to have like the guy who's, you know, six foot tall makes, you know, six figures and has a six pack ab.

And they're kind of getting this sort of like implicit model from their social media feed, right?

So obviously in the real world, you have to, you know, again, not sort of have this unrealistic expectation about what the guy should bring to the table or what the woman should bring to the table.

And to realize and appreciate that

marriage is about friendship and it's about i would say also it's about like a virtuous friendship too so having like this both romantic connection but also kind of a very clear-eyed sense of whether or not someone has the kinds of virtues that would make them a good wife or a good husband a good mother or a good father these are really important and then also it's ideal too to have you know shared faith these are the things that really matter and how tall someone is or

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