Brad Wilcox
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first heard Jun 2026
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And by the time she got back to Dallas...
She felt like her kind of pool of eligible men was small.
It was hard for her to kind of meet the right person.
So if she had kind of looked earlier in college, she told me she thought she could have had access to a much bigger supply of guys who'd be kind of on her wavelength.
She's attractive, but also kind of more nerdy, more kind of
book-oriented and she felt like kind of in college there would have been a bigger supply.
So she thought she should have gotten started earlier.
I think that's another factor too for young.
And then also just the profound ways in which the digital revolution has had a dramatic impact
on young adults' opportunities to socialize, to be together in the kinds of contexts that would facilitate friendship, dating, and then marriage.
We've seen, for instance, young adults socializing drop by about 50% since 2000.
50?
50% in terms of hours devoted to young adults socializing, yes.
So if you're just not out there meeting people in a variety of sort of organic social contexts, it's going to be a lot harder to find the guy who might drive a spark that would lead to romance and then marriage down the road.
So these are some of the reasons that we see.
I think it's also the case, too, that because of the kind of
post-digital social collapse we've seen, you know, we don't have enough deliberate efforts to be kind of putting adults together in, you know, in lectures, dances, and other kinds of venues that would kind of facilitate the mixing and mingling that, you know, would make for more dating and more marriage as well.
I think certainly some have.
I think some have kind of like this sort of soulmate model, like this sort of – they have this notion they're going to find the perfect partner, the perfect person, the one who's going to kind of check all their boxes.
Lori Gottlieb, for instance, who is a psychologist, a writer for The Atlantic – she's not a Christian, but she kind of –
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