‘The pretty ones get picked first at the market’: Family makes nasty remarks to 22-year-old because she isn’t married yet

Those dreadful family gatherings where everyone is suddenly interested in your love lifeI don't know if it's just me, but I'm always on this side of family gatherings, and I have to say It's genuinely soul-crushing, and it's something that has to stop.It's enough to have an entire society telling you what you should or shouldn't have accomplished by a certain age; we don't need our closest family members repeating the message.Quite frankly, the message itself is dated. In the best-case scenario, the person receiving it genuinely doesn't want a partner or isn't looking for one, so the comment lands on deaf ears. But what happens when someone who is actively looking for a partner and can't find it has to listen to something like that?Whatever happened to being kind? Do those people really think they are helping us find a partner by rushing us or saying that we can't do it because we're not pretty enough or are not trying hard enough?I don't think commenting on anyone's relationship status is a good thing if it's not something the person being questioned generated themselves.There is nothing worse than feeling lonely and rejected in the place you should feel protected and cherished. …