I grew up hearing people say that love and marriage would come naturally to everyone. I believed it too — until I became the woman everyone thought would never marry. It started subtly at first. People whispered about me, my looks, my personality, and even my family background. But the comment that changed everything came from someone I had known for years — my neighbour.
We had always been friendly, exchanging greetings and pleasantries whenever we met. One afternoon, while chatting near our gate, he looked at me in a way I had never seen before and said plainly, “You will never get married. No man will want you.”…CONTINUE READING
