Now a free bird..
33M working in Hyderabad. I was left at an altar on the day before of marriage 6 yrs ago.
We met through a common friend and after 3 months of meeting in person and conversation over phone, I asked if she is ok to cement the relationship though marriage. She took 3 months to say yes. I was very happy.
She was working in a reputed firm in Mumbai and her job was non transferable. I was working in Pune at that time. I used to travel every weekend to Mumbai to meet her.
Everything seemed normal till the day before marriage. She broke the news of not to go with marriage as she was seeing someone from her organisation and well settled in Mumbai.
Even after convincing , she was not ready. Her parents also tried to support me, but she was not ready to listen.
I even paid around 8L towards marriage expense as her family also spent 16L towards it as they wanted a grand marriage.
Though we got all the gold ornaments back which we gave it to her from my family side as a part of our tradition, but we had to let go that 8L amount. The reason was that somebody from her family called police and try to register false case of dowry demand after we asked that 8L.
A lot of troubles we had to go through. A ray of hope was that one if my friend's brother was a well known lawyer and he was able to douse this police issue. This forced me to drop that amount demand..
After a couple of months of this incident, I lost job..was staying at home for 4 months with no idea of outside world.
Then I started searching for job. Finally landed with job in Hyderabad and accepted it without second thought..
Now I dont want to get into marriage thing. Happy to stay single.
Are all girls out there bad? No..just bcos it happened to me, I shud not see everyone with same view. But my view changed. Good that it happened to me. Now I want to just be free with no burden.
I will travel within and outside India just to relax myself.