I’m sure for the parents of an unmarried boy or girl in a small shtetl in the Alte Heim, there was some degree of anxiety but likely not the “crisis” mentality we are dealing with today. Daily life was a much greater challenge and I suspect the ability to establish your own home and living arrangements with your beschert was not the simple task of going to one of the “one stop” wedding stores to purchase all your dishes, furnishings etc. As far as where did our parents and grandparents “learn” to be husban/wife, probably w/o the benefit of online videos, kallah classes etc.
