My cousin is a 33-year-old female doctor, and the whole family is in a hurry to find a partner
My cousin has been what her parents call "someone else's child" since she was a child, and she has had good academic performance since she was a child, with a sweet image, soft-spoken and organized. My cousin has 3 children, my cousin is the eldest and she has two younger brothers. In our rural areas, the patriarchal mentality is very strong, and many girls do not graduate from junior high school, and their families are not allowed to go to school, so they have to go home to help with household chores, farm work, and younger siblings.
Although my cousin has loved to study since she was a child, the older generation always said that "a woman is virtuous if she is not talented", and sooner or later she will marry someone else's family, and there is no need for a girl to read so many books. My uncle is a relatively enlightened person, he has always supported his cousin to study, as long as his cousin can be admitted and is willing to read, he will always let her read, as long as she can live a better life. In this way, my cousin went all the way from undergraduate, graduate school, to doctoral graduation.
After graduating from the doctorate, my cousin was introduced by talents and entered the university in our provincial capital as a teacher. This made the uncle's family very happy, but after a long time, the cousin's finding a partner became a heart disease for the whole family. My cousin was 29 years old when she first entered the university as a teacher, and soon after entering the university, she fell in love with a male teacher in the same college. After talking for 2 years, I was ready to talk about marriage, but I didn't expect the man's parents to think that she was 31 years old, and they thought he was old, so they wanted their son to find a little girl in his early 20s. Who knows, the male teacher is also a mother's boy, and he really obeyed his parents and broke up with his cousin.
This incident hit my cousin hard, after more than a year of silence. Relatives and friends around her have also begun to introduce her to many objects one after another, but there has been no suitable one. The man either thinks that she is too highly educated and pressured, or he also thinks that she is old, and the cousin also does not want to settle, saying that he can't find a suitable one, and would rather not marry than make do with her life.
My cousin's marriage event has saddened our whole family, and even my uncle sometimes has no choice but to say: I would have listened to the old man if I knew it, what is the use of girls reading so many books, but they have not started a family for a long time. I quite understand my cousin, marriage can't be improvised, I always believe that my cousin is so good, she will definitely meet her own happiness.