My mom keeps telling me that she wants me to have an arranged marriage with a girl in Bangladesh. Emphasis on “girl” because the people she’s showing me are like still in high school (wtf but also high school works differently so they’re like 2-4 years younger than me). I usually just tell her no and that I’m focusing on my studies right now. She’s been getting really insistent lately and keeps telling me that she’ll be really lonely if I don’t marry a woman she can treat as her personal daughter in law. Fyi both my parents know I’m only romantically interested/attracted to men but my mom is like “marry someone and forget her” which really fucks my shit up considering that a lot of my family is a result of arranged marriages but my parents actually got together because they loved each other.
Part of me just wants to leave my family forever and go no contact but another part of me that’s horrified for thinking that, but then another part of me gets so heated and I start losing myself.
CW: homophobic attitudes (light).
My mom keeps telling me that she wants me to have an arranged marriage with a girl in Bangladesh. Emphasis on “girl” because the people she’s showing me are like still in high school (wtf but also high school works differently so they’re like 2-4 years younger than me). I usually just tell her no and that I’m focusing on my studies right now. She’s been getting really insistent lately and keeps telling me that she’ll be really lonely if I don’t marry a woman she can treat as her personal daughter in law. Fyi both my parents know I’m only romantically interested/attracted to men but my mom is like “marry someone and forget her” which really fucks my shit up considering that a lot of my family is a result of arranged marriages but my parents actually got together because they loved each other.
Part of me just wants to leave my family forever and go no contact but another part of me that’s horrified for thinking that, but then another part of me gets so heated and I start losing myself.
blegh