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2.5 Years And Many Jitters Later, Here's Why He's Asked Me To Move On
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It's been 7 months since we had been in a live-in relationship. And we've been dating for the past 2.5 years. Now we decided to talk to our parents about our marriage, as my parents were forcing me to get married. It was my mother’s birthday, the day we decided to talk to my parents, but I was not able to say much as there were many of my friends there and I didn’t want my father to create a scene and ruin the surprise party.
The next morning, when I was about to leave for office I called him to my flat. My heart was beating very fast, my legs were trembling due to fear, I prayed in front of my grandparents' photographs and went straight to the hall where my dad was seated on the sofa and mom was in the kitchen.
I called mom and asked her to sit on the sofa along with dad, she asked why, I said, "I need to tell you guys something." I turned towards dad and said, "Dad, you were asking me what kind of a boy I wanted to marry, I want to marry him," and pointed towards him.
My dad didn’t lift his head and said, "Now you go to your office, come back and then we’ll talk." And I left the house with him. This is when everything started. After a lot of drama at my house, my dad agreed to talk to him face to face. He called both of us to his house. After a long conversation, he asked my boyfriend to convince his parents within a month and asked him about all the possibilities. He even asked him to discuss with me and decide what will we be doing after his parents' decision.
It's just a week after that discussion, I am back at my place to tell my dad that his parents didn’t agree and he left me just after 4 days of trying to convince them.
His father has left eating and his mother is depressed, he says. He is emotionally drained out. He has already made up his mind about leaving me. Every time in the last week whenever I called and cried for him, he has said that nothing can happen between us as his parents are not going to agree for our marriage because we're not from the same caste. And he cannot take any risk, because what if something happens to them because of us?
So, he's decided to leave us behind.
