Showing posts with label arranged marriage. Show all posts
Showing posts with label arranged marriage. Show all posts

Sunday, June 12, 2011

Arranged marriages: The title of the piece says it all

The National's opinion section had a great column today by Taryam al Subaihi, a freelance writer from Abu Dhabi, about arranged marriages called Hard to Explain? Arranged marriages really can lead to love

I love this piece because it makes me realise how much I've changed (for the better, I believe) since moving here. I would have huffed and puffed my way through a piece like this three years ago, thinking wrong, wrong wrong.

Now, as with most things, even if I don't live it, I can see that it's as true and real for others as anything I accept in my own life.

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