I dated a girl the summer after my freshmen year of college. She had just graduated and lived in the townhouse across from the one I’d just moved into with several friends. We didn’t date long, a few months, and then she landed a job 7 hours away. The relationship essentially ended (amicably) with me visiting her at her new home.
Fast forward to my 4th year of college (or rather the summer just before it). I went down to visit her for a few days. We hit it off again, but things were quite obviously different with her. Where as when we’d dated years earlier her her interest in me was plainly genuine, her interest this time… was almost as if she was sizing me up. She asked me questions like how school was going, how soon til I graduated, what my degree would be in, what I wanted to do for a job, several more core questions about my plans for my future, etc, etc…. It became abundantly clear she was trying to see if I would make a good husband. It didn’t make things too awkward honestly. I just told her the truth, we had a fun weekend, and that was that. She ended up meeting her eventual husband (and eventual father of her child) about a month after I visited.
That was the most “desperate” I’d ever seen a woman. She was in her mid/late 20’s, and she was more of a religious/conservative type. So that she wasn’t even dating a strong potential husband was probably eating her up inside. To her credit she seems incredibly happy with her husband, so that’s good.