DEAR DEIDRE: MY family are angry with me because I am unmarried, though I’m over 30.
The problem is I want to marry a rich man and they say I should be happy with someone middle class.
Our family is from Pakistan originally. We live in the UK but my parents expect to arrange my marriage.
I don’t have qualifications or a job but I want to marry a rich guy as I have seen the trouble it causes in a marriage when money is tight.
My parents arranged for my brother to marry a girl from Pakistan. He’s not rich and she makes his life hell if he can’t give her everything she wants.
My parents bend over backwards to please her, though she is rude, yet they are nasty to me.
DEIDRE SAYS: I realise your culture expects your family to arrange your marriage but that doesn’t mean you can’t start shaping your own destiny.
Get some more education, work hard and look to have a career of your own.
You’d then be able to have income in your own right and it might even lead you to meet someone your parents would happily approve of.
Talk it over with the Muslim Women’s Network Helpline (mwnhelpline.co.uk, 0800 999 5786).
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