I hope my story can make some of u feel better.
I was also in shidduchim for a long time. I didnt meet too many boys and the ones I met I dated for a while, looked promising and then nothing. It was very hard. I used to work crazy long hours to get my mind off of shidduchim.
Pesach was coming up and I knew that it’ a major time for dating since the boys come home from EY, but I didnt have a single date, not before pesach and not chol hamoed.
A couple of days After Pesach I went to a shiur, and the speaker was talking to me. She spoke about Nisyonos and the light in every challenge. i left the shiur so inspired and with so much emunah. When I got home, my parents were sitting on the couch. They told me that new name had been mentioned (NEW NAME?!?! that exists?) The boy was going back to EY, so we had to find out fast.
To make a long story short, B”H we got engaged! I was his first girl. Like the rest of the stories here, I had to wait for him.
Boy am I glad I did!!