[Marriage Makes a Woman Lose Her Mind] [Top-Tier Fiction + Realist Literature + Women's Fiction + Pressure to Marry + Views on Marriage] I’m Tian Jingjing, and my family keeps pressuring me to get married. I’m only 25. I’d barely graduated from college before they started urging me to hurry up, get married, and settle down. They’ve been at it ever since, but I still haven’t budged. I rarely make it home, and now I’m sitting in the house watching my parents put on a show for me. My mother says, heartbroken, “You’re almost 30! If you don’t get married soon, you’ll be old! Who’s going to want you when you’re older?” I reply, “Widows with a second child already have men lining up to marry them.” No sooner have the words left my mouth than my father smashes a cup…
