The Day Before I Became a Married Womxn

19/08/2020

The irony of being a South Asian womxn is this – no matter how successful you are, no matter your achievements and successes, your unmarriedness will eclipse everything else. It isn’t that everything you’ve done does not matter, of course, it still does. But none of it will matter as much as your marital status.

Your aloneness becomes an inextricable part of your identity. Your “inability” to have a partner will raise many questions.

After the 245th time it happens, it becomes unnecessarily exhausting…

This piece was first published on RIC Journal. Click here to read the full story.