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 I think what's happening here is for a lot of young men, really two things.

So I was talking to my RA a few years ago.

This is my research assistant at UVA.

who is a very bright, talented, ambitious guy.

And I asked him kind of like, what's your plan for your career?

And he had like a very detailed plan for the next 10 years of his life that he kind of sketched out for me.

And then I asked him, well, would you like to get married?

And he said, yes, I'd love to get married.

I said, what's your plan for, you know, getting married?

And there was just silence.

He hadn't developed a plan.

He had a very kind of concrete strategy for his professional future in the next 10 years, but no strategy for dating and finding a wife.

And so I think one of the issues is that we're not encouraging our young men to be kind of much more deliberate about developing kind of a strategy in terms of dating and also kind of thinking about how they can make themselves more appealing to the opposite sex.

I think that's one piece.

We're just kind of not giving them enough cues and enough, you know...

reinforcement on that front.

But I think the other thing is there's just a profound lack of confidence.

So we did a survey recently that found that only about one in three young men felt like they had the confidence to approach a woman to indicate their interest in her.

So I think there's kind of a confidence issue we need to address and address it in terms of both trying to encourage guys to kind of take that risk to ask someone out on a date, but also to kind of take that smaller risk to kind of just engage women socially on a more regular basis.

You know, it could be after church, it could be at work, it could be

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