I got to wonder why someone, at age 18, is in such an all-fired hurry to get married? Especially, someone immersed in an ambitious academic program. Who does that? It's a bit outside of cultural norms for this part of the world, in this day and age. This keeps sounding to me like a situation that a woman from some 3rd world culture would get into, through some arranged marriage. Seeya describes it differently, but there's got to be some context to this whole situation that we're missing.