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How to defend choices that don't fit Western relationship norms

My Indian parents arranged my marriage and I've been happy for twelve years but I still can't tell my American friends how we met without seeing judgment in their eyes.

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More people experience this than they realize.

What we've seen

Cultural practices that work within their context can become sources of shame when filtered through different value systems.

Worth thinking about

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