Lol Torah613.
I think believing in the shidduch crisis causes financial and metabolic challenges.
The truth is, you bring up a very fair point, that it is unhealthy and counterproductive for a girl to stress over the numbers issues. I think that it must be stressed to any individual girl that, 1) first and foremost, HKB”H runs the world 2) even b’derech hateva, any individual’s chances of finding a shidduch are excellent, provided she (or he, for that matter) has her (his) priorities in order.
The age gap is more of an issue for society to deal with than for single girls to deal with.