Love is blind, marriage is eye-opener

When my handsome nephew rang up to say he liked a girl for marriage, I was happy. “But she is short. I am in a fix,” he added.
I realised my nephew is behind time.
Soon-to-be grooms fail to understand this is a new world. Now, it’s the girls who set terms for marriage. We, boys, used to do that for generations.
I heard a few real stories on these lines:
Some parents of girls make demands from marriage counsellors, like; Can you find a groom for my daughter? But he should not have parents.” “Please tell the groom’s relatives that my daughter will not cook. We do not want hassles later.”
“My daughter is career-focussed. Child should not be a priority.”
I also read an interesting incident. A boy and girl were engaged. The girl casually asked the boy whether he had a cook at home.
“Yes,”
“What happens when the cook takes leave?”
“You,” he said.
“What the heck does your mom do?”
The cheerful conversation ended in cancellation of marriage.
Remembered a silly joke:
Husband to wife: "I love your relatives. I like your mother-in-law better than mine."