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Sheetalb, ur frd is a grt example of how arranged marriage can go wrong, and what nightmare are there. However, a single instance of such incidence is not a reality. Remember Biology - "there is always exception."
For me, ur story makes no sense to me.....( ki script lekhnay garay koe cha movie koe lagi...?; thats what came to my mond when I read so ........)
"One of my friend recently got married because his parents forced him to marry this girl who seemed nice and all " - Remember all parents want is - your khusi. ( i know you still find all those cast and status thing, and what not).....I don't think any parents in this 21st centeury will force you to marry to someone particular........No parents will force you to marry someone they don't know well ( u siad she seemed nice...........so that mean they never knew her well nor her family...) Some thing fishy here.......I smell a story writing practice here..........
"I have also heard of story where a girl married a US based guy to come here and once here ran away with another guy who was her boyfriend and was ilegal for long time. " - Another story u heard from another story writer. I don't think girl will go to that extend just to be here. They will not sell their body and spend their few weeks with some unknwon guy and make all physical relationship and create situation where she and family and closed ones cannot show their faces for teh rest of their life. (well, I cannot say with 100% confident here..I have seen things preety bad than this). How come her boy frd (illegal) agreed to this? then blame the guy who married her...I know a bolloyhood movie with the same sort of story - where this girls married a rich guy, and she makes all sorts of 'bahana' for a month everytime the husband wants to make physical realtionship.....R we talking about this movie?....
Well, All I am saying is you don't just jump to a decesion - specially the greatest decesion of ur life. And we should never forget that Praents never wants ur wrong or even try to bring misery to you. I know, sometimes they disgaree with what u think because of generation gap. But, when you gonna use your all earned knowledge and things and experinece that you acquired over this perioad of time using their money?....They will always listen to you, sometimes it is just a time...