What makes a guy marriage material or not?

Question

I'm 24 and at an age when all my friends are either getting married or allready married, but I just don't feel ready to take the plunge. Seems like torture to me. Maybe with the right person, but she is getting married to my best friend and I can't tell her how I feel about her.

Answer 1

A lack of a self preservation instinct and a tendancy to fall for peer pressure.

Answer 2

1) Having a good job (being a doctor or lawyer helps.)

2) Being nice and kind

3) Being physically in shape

4) Being romantic

5) Caring about the woman and asking how her day went, what her hobbies are, etc.  

Answer 3

I don't think anybody can actually determine exact "marriage material."  I think the person themselves have to determine whether or not they are marriage material, and those decisions, are based solely on how they feel about themselves.  

Answer 4

I love and respect women. I however do advice any man to not get married intill the divorce and family court systems become fair to both sexes.

Answer 5

Well, if you have no desire to ever marry, then you wouldn't be marriage material. But then, you don't want to be, so it's not a problem.

You have no obligation to marry. Since you don't want to marry, you're doing everyone a favor by not doing so. Nor is there a law against someone marrying later than their friends. If you change your mind at, say 32, no harm, no foul.

As for marriage material, it varies, as not all women value exactly the same traits.

Answer 6

Its an interesting question - and one that cannot be answered by any list you provide.  What makes one a good husband for one woman will make him a bad husband for another.  

Finding an individual with common interests and a similar attitude toward a life together is the best start I can imagine.  The rest is window dressing, and will not be important when the big issues come along in life...

Answer 7

I don't know about other women, but I pay attention to my sense of  whether a guy just wants me for *** or if he genuinely likes me and wants to take things further.   Obviously, the second guy is marriage material.

If you're not ready, then don't "try" to be ready. It's just comes naturally, or people will sense you being "fake" or "trying too hard."

24 is very young, IMO. I'm 25 and I'm not ready for marriage.  

Don't look for love or try to meet someone's standards. Wait for love to come to you, and it will.

Rushing into marriage is the worst thing you can do.  

Answer 8

According to the doctoral thesis of Dr. Amy Rogers-Bauer, women tend to marry non-risk takers who can support them--but they fool around with the dangerous guy.  other reports find facial features predict that women tend to have successful long term relations with men with rounded (full) facial features, but are likely to cheat on them with men with thin angular features.

Answer 9

There is a lot that goes into being "marriage material" (as in, someone a woman would want to marry).

1- Stable job/no criminal activity

2- He is capable of having just one woman

3- He shares common goals and dreams with you

4- You are attracted to each other

5- He is mature enough to admit when he makes mistakes, and smart enough to get over them and move on.