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Originally Posted by ellebud
One of my dearest friends said that her parents were ready to sit shiva for her (memorial services in the home after a funeral) because she was graduating without a husband. They said that they "wasted" all that money.
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Christ on a crutch, they actually said that to her?!? That's saying "you didn't get married by X age, so as far as we're concerned, you're dead."
Back when dinosaurs roamed the earth (as you so eloquently put it
) my mother-in-law was sent to college for an MRS degree. Specifically, she was to find and marry a doctor, or (more realistically) a man who was in the process of becoming a doctor. (She did get her MRS degree, but my father-in-law - let's just say he's not a doctor.) She was sent to a less expensive college, because her parents had limited financial resources and OF COURSE they had to put her brother through medical school - why? - he was male.