When I was 17 years old, my parents and my uncle, the Chazon Ish, worked very hard to find a shidduch for me. Yet, shidduch after shidduch did not come to be…. Now, consider this. When the search for my zivug began, my future wife Batsheva, was not yet bas mitzvah! She was certainly not ready to begin shidduchim. But since she was my “bashert,” Hashem caused those who were suggested for me to not want to proceed…”
~ R’ Chaim Kanievsky zt”l