Why does religion or culture become a major problem when it comes to relationships. Is it wrong for two people in love to be happy even if they are not the same race or religion or cast?

The saying ‘you can’t help who you fall in love with’ is obviously not put into consideration for this couple below:

They met via the internet using a chat site, after months of talking to each other online and over the phone they had decided to meet up. Their first date was the best one by far for both of them, they both felt connected to one another like they had finally found their soul mate.

The complication was that the woman lived 2 hours away from where the man lived, so it was hard for them to see each other a lot. This didn’t seem such a matter to both of them because when they was together it felt like they had never been away from each other. Both of them had disastrous past relationships so they did not want to rush into anything too soon untill they knew that they were made for each other. For a whole year the pair had continued to travel two hours every weekend to see each other and were on the phone talking nearly 24/7.

One evening when they had gone out for dinner, the man took the woman’s hand, stared her straight in the eyes and said “All my life I have never had a friend I could share my deepest secrets with, I have never had a girlfriend who would travel two hours every weekend just to see me, and i’ve never saw anyone as beautiful, I love you more than my life itself, be my wife”. The woman who had already started crying took the mans hand and rested it on her cheek and said “Yes” and reached over to kiss him.

A week later the man finally picked up his courage to go the his fiance’s house to ask her hand in marriage from her father, the woman had already explained the situation to her parents and had told them how much she loved him. Just by the look on their daughters face everytime she mentioned his name they had realised that she had never been more happier in her whole life, so they were extremely pleased to say yes and had started to arrange the engagement party.

However, when the man had told his parents about the woman that he was going to marry they weren’t the slightest bit pleased. The man had been a jhatt which is a cast in the indian society whilst the woman had been a bhattri, these were still indian people, but yet because their casts were different the father of the man had demanded that he does not see this woman any longer and that there would be no way or no chance of him every getting married to this woman. The man now had to choose between the woman that he loved, and his entire family including his brother and sister who also disagreed with it. After a week of long thinking he had decided that he would have to stick by his family as he was the oldest son and without any reason or explanation he dumped his fiance by text.

The woman cried for weeks ringing and texting him wanting nothing but an explanation of what she had done wrong, she knew that his family did not like her because of the cast situation but she never thought that her man would be such as coward to not stand up to to them, as she had done with her parents.

6 months later:

The woman and man are still both single, she has decided to go traveling whilst he still lives at home with his parents working 10 minutes away from his house. Both of these people still feel like there is a piece missing from the jigsaw of their heart yet because they were not the same cast……….it will always remain missing.

This is true by the way 

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  • jesse on Nov 17, 2009

    i know that feeling :(

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