My Parents Wanted Me To Marry My Cousin
Before I declined the arranged marriage proposal from my first cousin, I almost accepted it. This story is about the almost-acceptance. It’s about the social pressures which nearly buckled me into a ‘yes’, before I resisted and reclaimed my right to say ‘no’. It’s about the cultural codes of honour, perceptions of duty, and the deeply entrenched values of allegiance to kin which underlie the custom of cousin-marriage in Pakistan, my country of birth.
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