Undergraduate female x PhD male
When I broke up with Mr. Z, I thought the reason was that his mother wanted to have a grandchild too much, but I didn't want to have one for the time being.
I believed it. I blamed myself for half a year, thinking that I was too selfish.
Until that day I saw his TikTok.
The new girlfriend is a doctor, just like him. They were talking about subjects I didn't understand, and they were living in a house that he and I had renovated together—I picked the paint on the walls, the dishes in the kitchen.
And she is a DINK.
At that moment I realized that his mother never wanted grandchildren.
A daughter-in-law worthy of her doctorate son.
Children are just excuses. Academic qualifications are the threshold that I can never cross.
He said he loved you and read an English poem in a London accent.
It turns out that he told me the answer to the breakup from the beginning.
Concept: Love under the disparity in academic qualifications seems to be lost to the family, but in fact it is lost to the marriage.