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Itzik_s
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BS”D

No, we should not be reading between the lines.

She’s just an untrained writer who comes off sounding arrogant in some places and sincere in others. That sentence above should read “but I’m looking for someone different”.

If, as I assume, she is using shadchanim, then her appeal really should be to them for setting her up with the wrong guys. Having had my time wasted by a shadchanis who was obsessed with height and must have calculated mine from the top of my best Shabbos hat to the bottom of the heels of a pair of thick soled shoes I wear in the house (how she ever knew I had them is beyond me), I know what kind of characters are involved in sheker diber kesef notel.

In fact the writing is SO bad that if there were no name given I would indeed suspect the letter was not authentic. But sometimes when people express very personal feelings they come out in ways that don’t always look good or make sense.

I don’t think learning full time is for everyone and in my community it is unheard of. But if someone really wants to dedicate her life to supporting a sincere learner who isn’t looking for a meal ticket, let her have her chance. He’s waiting for her since before they were both born!

I just hope she doesn’t plan to support her husband by working as an author, an editor or a journalist :)!