Excellent response. The mother needed to stop at “38 year old”. Men don’t find old women attractive. It’s nature. Just as women want to marry “up”, that’s nature too.
Young women need a reality check and it’s up to parents to let them know if they want marriage/children then they’d better start working on it when they’re 20 not 30.
It seems that she prioritized marriage dead last, after "useless relationships", "two Ivy League Schools", etc.
Now, at 38 which is about 15 years past her prime and a good 10 years after "hitting the wall", she's surprised that she can't find a husband.