My Choice Isn’t Marriage or Loneliness
23/04/2021
I thought I had a classic fear of commitment, but it’s more complicated than that.
I thought I had a classic fear of commitment, but it’s more complicated than that.
As a Pakistani Muslim, I knew that falling for a Hindu Indian would break me. And it did.
There’s just one catch.
I kept telling myself not to believe in him. And yet, believe I did.
My obsessive online shopping wasn’t really about the clothes.
He needed someone to cuddle him.
In my life, sex and love have been twisted up with childhood trauma. Time for a break.
When my parents divorced, I lost the link that held our family together. And then I found it.
The first time we spoke, she was so weak she had collapsed. Why did that not alarm me?
During lockdown, a 25-year marriage shakes and resettles.