People may have some form of disability, but why should this be a barrier in life, for is life not just what you make it to be.
People talk about ‘normal’ but what is ‘normal’ is this just a perception for what could be ‘normal’ for one may not be ‘normal’ for another.
Being with another, be it marriage or not, is creating a relationship to which both parties belong and relate to.
The two persons are the important factors in the relationship and others or Society should not be imposing any barriers to that relationship, provided both are consenting partners, they are of legal age and have the capacity to consent.
Sometimes he’d even forget that I only had one arm. He was an able-bodied person, a complete man – he could get any girl.
But he was with me. It had been a year since we started living together under one roof without getting married.
The decision to stay together while unmarried was not an easy one.
It started after I created my profile on a matrimonial site to alleviate my mother’s concern about my marriage.
I had turned 26 and my mother thought it was time.
My left arm had got cut off in an accident when I was a child, so I understood her anxiety about my marriage.
One day, I got a request on the matrimonial site. The man was an engineer by profession. He was Bengali too, just like me, though from a different city.
But I was unable to decide anything. So I wrote back…
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