Every single woman I have met through the traditional rishta process or that I have gone out with myself have all turned me down once they realise I live with my parents.
I have a good salary and can sustain a relationship.
But moving into my house with my parents seems to be the deal breaker.
I can't move out on my own-it would hurt my parents too much.
I am all they have.
I have an older brother who has stopped contact with my parents ever since he got married. My parents have not even met his children.
I can't abandon them.
I want to get married and have a family of my own but all the women I meet cannot compromise on this one thing.
They tell me I am weak because I can't stand up to my parents and move out.
Have women become so superficial and demanding that I have to choose between wife and parents?
I feel disillusioned and have started to resign myself to the fact that marriage may not be destined for me.
Well not whilst my parents are alive.
And I hate myself for thinking that way.
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