My mum called me yesterday asking when I'm bringing a wife home

I am 21 years old, 300 level student, still surviving on 2,500 naira per day for feeding. And my mother called me yesterday evening, after she finished praying, she just ask me quiet quiet, 'Emeka, when are you going to bring your wife come and greet us?'

I swear I nearly dropped my phone. Wife? I am still calculating how to buy garri for the week without touching my JAMB tutoring money. The same woman who used to say 'finish your education first before any woman trouble you' is now asking about marriage. Na wa for Nigerian parents o. They want you to be broke, focused, and married at the same time. God when?

I just told her, 'Mummy, I dey find the woman first, she must be a graduate, God fearing, and she must know how to manage small money.' She said okay, but I could hear the hope in her voice. The pressure is real at 21 imagine what 25 will look like...