Dear Hopeful33:

Congrats for getting your username back, and with a capital H this time. I went back to threads in the Relationship category, page 8: “Regrets and repent on lost things”- is by sia, a medical doctor from India whose mother is looking for a husband for her, as in arranging a marriage for her. The story of her parents’ marriage, and I assume it was arranged, may be interesting to you, the nature of it.

Regarding denial in marriages- that is common in many marriages where both parties fell in love and chose to get married. They chose the marriage but then… arranging to stay in it, and the denial and coping mechanisms are similar to the arranged marriages.

Later-

anita