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Terminal 'Why Aren't You Married' Syndrome

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TERMINAL
Diagnosis
Terminal 'Why Aren't You Married' Syndrome
Nuptialis interrogatio eterna
Clinical description

Parent cannot attend any family gathering without asking when the wedding is. Has asked at a funeral. Has asked a seven-year-old.

Prognosis

Irreversible. Will ask your partner on first meeting.

Recommended treatment

Untreatable. Marriage does not resolve it β€” question pivots to grandchildren.

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Common symptoms

Patients with Terminal 'Why Aren't You Married' Syndrome typically present with some or all of the following:

What is this?

Terminal 'Why Aren't You Married' Syndrome belongs to the Institute's growing taxonomy of behaviors that real medicine has declined to name. It exists, roughly, at the intersection of internet culture, interpersonal friction, and whatever is happening in the lives of our patients. It is fictional and it is everywhere.

Under its Latin label Nuptialis interrogatio eterna, the condition appears only in the Institute's own catalog. Real clinicians do not recognize the term. They recognize the behavior.

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