If only I had taken her seriously, but I was too much in love with my husband. That was the first red flag I should have paid attention to.

A relationship, especially a marriage, is as much about what we make it, as it is about things beyond our control. The author muses on how they have handled it.

How many of us know what our mother's favourite food is? Or for that matter, her favourite songs, movies, books? Or even her desires and dreams?

As a woman you're expected to make your parents your second priority, whereas your husband or brother don't have to even have to think about it. This is our social conditioning passed on through generations, to girls.

Funny thing is, in the majority of the cases, all the talk about equality, men put in their matrimony profile is mostly for getting attention and may be for acting so benevolently when they feel like. But when actually women demand the exact thing, it put them off strongly.