Bored: I was going to write a similar post. Seminary seems to have as its mission to convince girls that they must marry a guy learning in kollel or risk not having a Torahdik home. My daughters’ seminary had one Shabbos away that they said seemed designed to highlight how wonderful kollel life is. Then the girls come back, some of them even wanting to live in Israel, but a good number of them marry guys who are sitting in learning, a lot in Lakewood it seems. From my observation, some of the girls who don’t marry right away for whatever reason become a little more realistic and realize that they would prefer to marry someone who will take care of her and the family, not visa versa. Sadly, there is a shortage of guys who do work and are serious about learning, and those who are, are of no interest to the kollel-minded girls.
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