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When survival requires compromising your authentic desires

I am marrying someone I care about but not love because it is my only path to legal status and I feel like I am betraying everyone including myself.

Juana
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More people experience this than they realize.

What we've seen

Limited legal pathways force people into relationships that instrumentalize love and compromise personal agency.

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