spent the weekend with my granddad, he is 85 now and got married at 25

he started the family in a poor, socialist country, in a depth of the cold war, with no real career prospects or financial security

average 25 year old men these days are 10x better off and don’t even consider starting families

feels backwards 

I think nowadays guys are not that better settled than the sixties. Buy a house in 2024 is freaking difficult if you don’t have already a strong base. I married at 24yo with almost nothing to give but the mentality in the 90s was still closer to our parents. Now I see a big gap between our opportunities back that times, and guys born in the 2000. More your life is frugal more you think to marriage, more your dreams are bigger more the marriage is just an annoying formality.