Obviously, it’s whenever it feels right for you, but according to the book Algorithms to Live By: The Computer Science of Human Decisions, written by journalist Brian Christian and cognitive scientist Tom Griffiths, the magic number is 26.
According to the algorithm, your quality of options goes down after that. That said, relationship therapist Weena Cullins disputes that number, saying it’s 28 for women and 32 for men, which allows for both to explore who they are personally and professionally.
And her thinking lines up with national statistics, which site the median age that American women get married as 28 years old and 30 years old for men.