You know why there’s a shidduch crisis? It has nothing to do with numbers. It has to do with the ridiculous expectations that both sides have-boys (and their mothers) demand a girl who’s skinny-which automatically knocks about half the eligible female population out. There are boys that demand the girls father run himself into the ground supporting his daughter’s growing family.
There are girls that demand that their husband be only of a certain look, certain yichus. There are girls that want to sit all day and drink ice coffee while their husbands slave away to make ends meet, or live off their father’s credit card, depending on what stream they are.
I’m not saying that everything that I listed above is describing every single girl. But as a single girl over the age of *gasp* 23, these are my experiences.
If someone finds out where the good guys are hiding out, let me know! The problem is that the guys that ARE around my age are generally not interested in a girl that’s older then 21, at the most. Of course, you hear stories of guys and girls that are around the same age. But for the most part, the guys are looking for the girls that have no life experience, whereas the girls that are still looking are left in the dust.