I'm going to say something controversial, which probably applies to none of you as you are all Christians, but it is something I've noticed.
Remember the whole sexual revolution thing in the 60s? I don't think that was really for men at all, but instead for women. It was mainly for women to have their own utopia of being able to sleep around with whomever they please without consequence or judgement. It broke society's mold into letting women basically have free range and go for the alpha male constantly instead of settling for a good beta male who would provide for them as a husband. I mean statistics don't really lie... the average age of marriage before that time was 20. Nowadays it is 26. Also, for men at least, 90% of all men were able to find at least one marriage partner in their lives before 1960. Since then, it has dropped to about 60%. These are real statistics. Women changed their mind about the provider beta male and instead went for the alpha male. Part of it also has to do with women having the ability to provide for themselves after the whole feminist movement was able to get the same type of jobs men got. That isn't a bad thing, but there are obvious consequences that went with it in terms of relationships.
Now what am I really getting at? Beta men kind of became superfluous until women started double clutching after years of dating alpha males who won't commit or lower their standards and settle down. Monogamy used to be societies norm, and having multiple partners throughout the years was just a big black eye on people back then. It is completely different today. That mold got shattered.
What does it really mean? I'm not saying this applies to any of you here... but it is something I've noticed. Women peak at their beauty ultimately at an early age... in their early 20s. They look amazing and their absolute best during that time. MEN however, don't really reach their physical primes until a later age. We start looking better, we have good careers, we have money, and we have self confidence that we may not have had in our early years. The sexual revolution basically made women able to pick and choose whoever they want, but they go for the alpha males that don't want them back. Women say to themselves, "I'm looking amazing and these guys my age don't have it together yet, so why would I marry?" and so they don't. When they get to their 30's though, they lost some of their fertility (psychological thing), they aren't looking as good, and they are jaded by years of bad relationships with alpha males. They aren't as desirable anymore, and their years of turning down good men because they aren't completely mature yet screwed them over for their future. How? The men in their 30s have everything going for them all of a sudden, and then THEY can pick and choose who they want, and they will go for the girls in their 20s who are still looking amazing. It's a big psychological game and it's depressing, but it's the way society is now.
I'm not saying this applies to any one of you, but it is something I think no one thinks about. It might not be completely accurate, but I've seen it enough to know there are some truths there. There's a very big reason why the world is flooded with divorce and older singles compared to 50 years ago. I hope no one takes offense to this statement though, because I am just a young kid who thinks he knows it all
Every situation is different, and it probably does not even apply to most Christians, but it is something to think about with why society is so messed up these days.