295: What if you had to betray your family to save them?
This Is Actually Happening
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🗓️ 24 October 2023
⏱️ 61 minutes
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Summary
Growing up in a very strict Persian-Indian-American family with an abusive father, a woman vows never to get married and repeat her parents cycle, but after her father arranges for her to meet her future husband, everything changes.
Today’s episode featured Mev Chubet. You can find out more about Mev on Instagram @mevchubet, you can also reach out to her over email at mchubet@gmail.com. Mev has also written a memoir about her experiences called The First of Many Flights: A Love of East and West, which you can find on Amazon: amazon.com/First-Many-Flights-Love-Story/dp/B0C6NZHTR4
Also, a special thanks to Jason Blalock for bringing us this story today.
Producers: Whit Missildine, Andrew Waits, Jason Blalock
Content/Trigger Warnings: war, domestic abuse, suicide attempt, explicit language
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| 0:00.0 | This is actually happening features real experiences that often include traumatic events. |
| 0:04.1 | Please consult the show notes for specific content warnings on each episode and for more information about support services. I was hurting the most important people in my life. You were told you are nothing and that she feels you're a danger and she picked something else. |
| 0:28.1 | But they couldn't see the situation I was in and that just made it that much darker and that much more upsetting. From Wundery, I'm Witt Misleine. You are listening to this is actually happening. |
| 1:07.0 | Episode 295. What if you had to betray your family to save them? Bosh Legacy returns now streaming. |
| 1:15.0 | Maddie's been taken. |
| 1:16.0 | Oh God. |
| 1:17.0 | His daughter is in the hands of a madman. |
| 1:21.0 | The light of the police have been looking for me. |
| 1:23.0 | But nothing can stop a father. |
| 1:25.0 | We want to find her just as much as you do. |
| 1:27.0 | I doubt that very much. |
| 1:28.0 | From doing what the law can't. |
| 1:31.0 | And we have to do this by way. You have to do this in our way. |
| 1:33.0 | You have to. I don't. |
| 1:36.0 | Bosh Legacy. Watch the new season now streaming exclusively on Freevy. |
| 1:41.0 | I'm Rob Bryden and welcome to my podcast Bryden and. |
| 1:48.0 | We are now in our third series. |
| 1:51.0 | Among those still to come is Sir Michael Palin, the comedy duo Egg and |
| 1:55.8 | Robbie Williams. The list goes on. So do sit back and enjoy Brydenand on Amazon Music, Wonder Plus, or wherever you get your podcasts. You're going to. My family is Persian. They migrated to India about 200 years ago and they migrated because the Iranians were |
| 2:35.8 | precious stone miners so we came over as miners and |
| 2:39.4 | the Rajas and the Maharajas and over time you know the the businesses started mixing and we became a part of the community but also wanted to be very very separate which is why Persians would only marry other Persians. That's what they did and |
| 2:55.9 | that's what they're still doing to this date. My mom was one of seven kids and she was born into this very, very wealthy, |
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