A marriage made by parental arrangement is doomed to fail. I managed to fall in love with my husband—he never did. Now my heart breaks into pieces every time I see my beloved in the arms of another.
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“Tell me… did you ever love me at all?” my voice is pitifully trembling.
The husband slowly stands up, comes to me, tucks a strand of hair behind my ear:
“You’ll be fine. Everything will be all right.”
We divorced, but later—like thunder out of a clear sky—two lines on the test and a new life. The question is whether this child is needed by my husband, if I wasn’t…