need some advice marriage seems elusive? help?

I have a friend and she is having problems with her boyfriend. Her boyfriend keeps talking about marriage but hasn’t been consistent with his statements about marriage. Sometimes he all for it and then other times he says they may have to postpone it for a while. My friend really loves this man and wants to marry him sometime while we’re all still young. He is even talking about buying a place next year and marrying her so doesn’t that mean he should ask her now so they will be engaged for that amount of time? Any advice? He’s 25 and my friend is 24.

Sure. Tell your friend to stop pushing the issue, and you are FAR from being "old". To be honest, the chances of any marriage lasting is much greater when both people are 28 and over. Marriage is HARD, and not something that should be taken on just because you feel you should within any kind of time frame.