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When cultural marriage expectations conflict with sexual identity

My conservative Indian parents arranged viewing meetings with potential husbands and I keep sabotaging them because I cannot bring myself to tell them I am lesbian.

Juana
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More people experience this than they realize.

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Traditional family structures can become prisons when they cannot accommodate the reality of who one actually is.

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