How do you react when your parents say "marriage" pertaining to you?

hehe. i am 22 and i get the same kind of 'compliments' over various stuff. it kinda makes me feel awkward. but i bet my dad does that as a joke but i can also sense some seriousness in it. and there have been several occasions where he has asked me in a quite straight forward manner if i like someone so that he can talk to that girl's parents (that is how it goes in my culture that the parents have to talk with each other to arrange marriage between the children). he never passes up the chance and asks quite frequently if i like someone from the university LOL. i just stay silent or laugh it out. i don't really know how to respond to it but i will let him know the answer when i have graduated and settled down with a good job.

well its good that u think abt boyfriend when u r alone , well i have just got a friend like u too ,she doesn't likes to talk abt boyfriend and relationships but i think she might think abt all this in her dream , well she is also quite small now . well my parents do talk this way , but i dont like to talk with them abt these topics , it may be because im shy type . but i like to talk abt these topics with some of my close friends, after all u cant kill ur felling, and the best way to express them is to talk abt them .

My fiance and I are engaged to be married. Before my fiance there wasn't much talk about it, maybe kidding here and there with my mom. I guess different cultures and households do things differently.

haha they're just joking around with ya. they know your older now and it's time to start the 'marriage' jokes lol. be happy your parents are even joking with that about you. my parents didn't talk or joke with me about anything, they were pretty much not there. i would have preferred the jokes! :)