I have been talking to women and their families through matrimony, on and off for quite some time.

Initially I thought, women aged 25-26 are not ready to settle down. Its fine, they are young, they want to enjoy life, party, travel, save money, grow in career etc.

So, I always sent interest to women above age 30. I still see, above 30 also are not ready to marry or being too picky. Well, it is not a judgemental post. It is their life and it is their choice to be picky or not. It is just my observation, hence sharing here.

Spoke to a 31 yr old woman, literally every criteria matching. Age, middle class family, income level, education, caste, same city. Same set of hobbies like traveling, photography, pets etc.

Her father seems really interested in moving forward, The candidate is not interested, very casual. Literally feels like doing window shopping.

Spoke to another woman (32yrs)having masters degree, but not working, have pressure from family to get married, father expired 8 years ago. I said, what is your views on working woman? do you want to work? or do you want to do anything else? Do you want kids? Also said, for a single income, its very hard to maintain a good life, due to added load of parents, kids, house EMI and huge inflation. (Am I wrong in saying that?) Now she responds like : "Dont mind, but agar Biwi ke income kiye hue paise se pet bharna hai, then dont get married". She lives in a metro city, complted double MA from top Uni, and this is the way they are responding to a person in matrimony!

Why nobody is looking for a marriage? looks like they are looking for the best deal? conversation revolves around money. Another woman said, she does not want to work, but wants to be pampered. Her Jiju gifted her apple watch and she wants and iphone. Why I dont use iphone, even though I am an IIM passout? this was her question. I dont understand what kind of life, they are looking for nowadays?