Marriage
Overthink
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I Will Not Marry, Will You Come to My Wedding if I Have One?
I was raised to believe that my parents had an extraordinarily happy marriage. And then as an adult, my dad came out of the closet and had a very different narrative around his reasons for getting married. I also grew up in a Christian context where homosexuality is vilified. So I think here about how the institution of marriage forced my dad into a situation that might not have fostered his well-being. This highlights an important point, which is that people are socially pressured into entering an institution that maybe if they had more choices, they wouldn't choose to enter.
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