EP827: I Sabotaged My Parents Marriage By Coming Out - r/TIFU Reddit Story
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🗓️ 7 April 2023
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r/TIFU - TIFU By telling my parents I was gay to avoid their arranged marriage proposals
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| 0:00.0 | This is an I Heart podcast. |
| 0:02.6 | Guaranteed Human. |
| 0:04.0 | I came out to my parents to sabotage their arranged marriage, but they had something |
| 0:10.4 | up their sleeve that will change my life forever. |
| 0:14.0 | My guy is the epitome of keep them guessing. |
| 0:17.4 | Oh, yeah. |
| 0:18.2 | The king. |
| 0:19.1 | King. |
| 0:19.6 | King. |
| 0:20.7 | He's a. No one will ever know his next move. No, no, no. He's arranging those pieces behind the chessboard. He's always six steps ahead. Yeah, he is. Man is a master of fuckery. That is correct. So I'm pretty straight. maybe slightly by, if we count femme boys. |
| 0:38.7 | Oh, yeah. |
| 0:39.0 | Let's get that out of the way first. |
| 0:41.1 | I'm also Indian American male around 26 years of age. |
| 0:45.1 | I'd first like to clear up some misconceptions around arranged marriage. |
| 0:49.3 | A lot of non-Indians seem to think it's literally your parents choose who you marry and that's that, but that is not the case. Instead, it's more like your parents tap their network to find potential partners for you. If you like each other's picks, then you guys meet in person and then you decide whether or not you want to get married. So basically, your parents are Tinder and you get a meeting or two to decide whether or not you want to get married. I love your parents or Tinder. Oh, yeah. Oh, yeah. I mean, it's kind of nice. It is nice. Parents set you up. It's not quite as bad as many of you think, but the whole process feels super rushed. And I'd rather date someone before I figure out if work and paddle were or not rather than like two dates and |
| 1:27.6 | they're like married totally honestly I feel like this model works better than Tinder it works way |
| 1:33.4 | like like if you think about it like you know at the end of day your parents probably know you |
| 1:37.7 | pretty well yeah and they're literally like working just just in the trenches trying to find a partner for you and you still get to like |
| 1:47.2 | I mean different people have you know some people is quick some people they date for a while |
| 1:51.2 | but like I mean they're giving you they're giving you options yeah yeah what I mean and I imagine |
| 1:56.3 | like your parents like want good looking grandkids so they're probably going to try to find you a batty |
| 2:00.7 | that is so true I never i never thought about it like that but that is so bad like you you don't |
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