Young Men and Women Don’t Care About Biological Clocks and Aren’t Going to Pretend Love Lasts Forever
It used to be that you fall in love, get married, have kids, and bare-knuckle your sexual temptations away, accepting that over time your spouse becomes your best friend…not your passionate lover
Many young folks aren’t buying into the idea that getting married and having children isn’t about them — it’s about putting their spouses and children above their personal satisfaction, desires, and 24-hour happiness.
None of us are perfect, but past generations accepted that the pathway to a spiritually and emotionally meaningful life included the kind of self-sacrifice we see much less of in today’s social media-driven world of instant and never-ending desire for physical and emotional stimulation.
While it’s awkward and unromantic — spending your 20s, 30s, and 40s changing diapers, waiting in car lines, sitting through excruciatingly long dance recitals, crying with your teenager over a broken heart, spending all your money, and wondering how your children are going to make it in this ever-changing, inflationary, dangerous world on their own — is deeply and indescribably gratifying.
The consequence of young people putting their education, careers, and bucket lists first, or waiting until their 30s, 40s…
