AM is so stressing because of parents pressure

Rant

I 28M was living abroad was in talks with a girl 27 through AM last year. She seemed like a nice girl and my family knew their family. I had plans to move back to India this year. I did talk to her for about 3-4 times on phone before despite my parents complaining to talk to her for more. She didn’t seem to open up much on phone. I’m also more of an introvert but i did make an effort to bring up interesting questions. I honestly didn’t see her make an effort to get to know me more. She was also not from a tier 1 city and I could kind of understand her perspective. Every-time we called she only talk about general said and not something that gives an idea of the other person in. While i still did ask interesting questions to know about her personalities. After coming back to India we had a date set up. She picked up a restaurant which was mid way b/w us. Like 40mins of travel for me. I did book a cab which was initially 40 mins from my home but arrived around 7 mins late. We had food and didn’t talk much. So I insisted we can go to a coffee shop to talk more which was 400m from the restaurant. 10mins by walk. While walking she was so slow, I was walking fast to get rid of afternoon heat 33C. It was a narrow alley where we can’t walk next to each other and I sort of missed looking at her as I was concentrating on the directions on my phone. We had a decent conversation. I figured out she wasn’t the right match for me. After coming home I told my parents that I’m not interesting in her as she seemed different than anticipated. My parents got angry on me: “what are you saying? How can we reject them?, they are so close to us” After a few days my parents got a call from her parents stating that she’s not interested, she waited so long on the date day. Also that i left her while walking. For all the petty issues. Then my parents got humbled as they didn’t seem as nice as they anticipated either as who rejects someone for these silly reasons. And the bride hunt continues…

Posted Jun 23, 2025, 4:13 AM UTC

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