On 1/5/2012 7:58 AM, biig wrote:
>> > wrote

>> I wonder what the divorce rate is for these arranged marriages?
>
> My only experience was with my late Mom's neighbour and good friend ( she
> was a god-send in my Mom's later years). Her daughter only met her future
> husband two weeks before the wedding. They married and moved out west away
> from her family. It lasted less than a year. So sad...she is a lovely
> girl. However, I'm glad she had the gumption to get out of it when it went
> wrong.....Sharon in Canada

I worked with one guy from India who was out of central casting as
the scary guy in an alley in a Disney fairy tale. He had a knife scar
right down his face and an evil glint in his eye. I'm serious. He was
a sadist. He actually inflicted pain me at work, and he later did the
same arm-pinching thing to our (female) boss.

Not knowing about this arranged marriage business at the time, I
marveled that he was married to the most stunningly gorgeous
woman around. How did she get stuck with such a creep?

She waited until they bought a house and she left him. He couldn't
just take all their money and hide it. Nice move, and the other
Indian guys were furious about that, as if she shouldn't get half.
She had a better paying job than he did. I learned later how much
he made her suffer with beatings.

The other guys seemed happy with their wives, but that one made me
think how awful that you could be given to someone you hate.

nancy