They moved so slowly in part because he was concerned about cultural differences and in part because her family had doubts about their daughter dating a Taiwanese man. The barrage of negative reports in the Vietnamese media about Taiwanese men also delayed things. It wasn't until he was 33 and she was 31 that the ticking of the biological clock got them seriously considering marriage.
原因是不僅他會擔心文化差異，女方家裡也對女兒的台灣男友存疑；再加上越南媒體對台灣男人的連番負面報導，雙方遲遲無法進展，直到廖仁成 33 歲、阮氏翠娥 31 歲──眼看就要變成高齡產婦了，才認真地考慮婚嫁。