Ask HN: When to settle down (as a guy)?
So here&#x27;s the thing. I have an online business is doing $xM&#x2F;y. I have lots of friends and I travel a lot. But I just turned 30.<p>Now I know time is limited etc. But I don&#x27;t feel like starting a family or anything like that yet. I have the freedom to do anything, go anywhere. On the other hand, I don&#x27;t want to miss out on the window of opportunity and be 50 and childless and lonely.<p>I kinda just wanna keep doing whatever I want. Meanwhile all my friends are moving in together, getting babies etc. Am I fucking up here? Hasn&#x27;t time changed though?<p>Or do I have severe Peter Pan issues? It&#x27;s not like I&#x27;m not responsible though, I take care of myself, my finances, my friends and family (that is, my parents!). I feel like if you don&#x27;t do it, society sees you as a failure but I don&#x27;t think I am?<p>I hear so many nightmare stories from married friends with babies etc. Divorces. Breakups. Also good stories. But mostly it seems people around me aren&#x27;t that happy with the choices that &quot;happened to them&quot;. I&#x27;m like rationally wondering if that&#x27;s really a smart choice when I&#x27;m in a pretty ideal situation now. It doesn&#x27;t seem like a choice for most, and it also appears like it&#x27;s mostly women making the choice for them (if I ask my guy friends).<p>I mostly wonder how long I should prolong it before I do it to optimize my usage of (life) time.