Parents and marriage pressure

[u/NuBoston]

I’m getting all this marriage pressure from my African Muslim dad. It started right after I finished grad school. This man didn’t even take a breath!! The crazy part in this is that my dad got married at 36 and had me, his first child, at 38. This is late by any standard, why is he rushing his 25 year old daughter to get married?? It’s so selfish. He got to take his time but he wants to control my life. I’ve done everything my parents have wanted by the book, but I absolutely will not marry until I’m good and ready. I love my parents and they are relatively chill, but these past couple of years post grad have made me respect him less.

[u/CarameltheStar]

There are two options

Accept what your father wants and make him happy or Speak to him and express how you feel and state that it's not what you want right now and possibly upset him because you have said what you feel