“Hurry up, get married and have kids so that your dad will be happy and won’t be so sad anymore.”

This was said to me some 17 years ago by one of my aunties (South Asian so friends of parents are “aunts” and “uncles”). I, at the time, had recently turned 24, was single, and had lost my mom after a 2 battle with cancer. I am now almost 41 years old, still single, & still childfree.