S6E6: Dancing With a Stranger

Love Letters

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🗓️ 1 February 2022

⏱️ 37 minutes

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Ayesha Mattu was supposed to marry a man whose background mirrored hers: Pakistani, Muslim, and from a certain caste. For a time, that was the plan. Then, one night in a dimly lit club, she saw a cute guy dancing. And thus their adventure began. Email us at [email protected].

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0:00.0	Hi, it's Meredith.
0:01.8	Listeners of Love Letters know that mental health is something I take very seriously, which
0:06.0	is why I want to tell you about season three of the podcast Turning Points, Navigating
0:10.2	Mental Health.
0:11.8	Each episode gets real about the ups and downs of Navigating Mental Health and the Turning
0:16.2	Points that can spark lifelong changes.
0:19.3	Post Francis Lease, a clinical therapist, talks with psychologists, dualists, writers
0:24.5	and experts about breakdowns, breakthroughs, and everything in between.
0:29.6	Turning Points, a podcast from Point 32 Health in partnership with Boston Globe Media.
0:34.7	Find Turning Points wherever you get your podcasts.
0:43.4	In Pakistan, it's sort of like once your past 25, your past the expiration date.
0:48.7	So I was very much past the expiration date.
0:51.6	I was sort of thinking, this could be another seven years of my life that I just am in
0:56.7	a relationship that's not going to go where I want it to go.
1:00.3	So there was that thought, but there was also that irrepressible desire and love of
1:07.2	romance thinking this could be it.
1:13.2	From the Boston Globe and PRX, this is Love Letters.
1:16.8	I'm Meredith Goldstein.
1:26.7	A few episodes ago, Ian Koss told us his story about trying to break the cycle of divorce
1:41.2	in his family.
1:42.8	He refused to be bound by that legacy.
1:46.3	Today's story comes at marriage and family and expectations in a different way.
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