What is the biggest and most mysterious secret that you have not revealed to anyone?

When I was 17 I fell in love with a mechanic who had a shop near my house. Atleast I thought it was love. We never had any physical encounters. He always wanted to but I told him only after we get married. I used to miss college to be with him. This went on for 2 years. I was in my second year when one of my teachers found out and told this to my parents. My father became really serious and told I can’t marry him because he is poor and belongs to a lower caste and can’t take care of me. I tried arguing with him but didn’t work. I always knew that my family had caste feeling. This made me think that my father was not accepting my relationship with him only because of caste. I told what has happened to him. He told me that we love with us and we both are majors so we’ll get married. He also told me that his parents might not accept our wedding as I belonged to a different caste. So we planned to get married. With the help of my friends I came out of my house with some gold as I needed money to complete my engineering. Then we got eloped secretly and went to his home, to my surprise his parents happily accepted us. Their home was really small and was like a hut, all their customs were different and their behavior was also new to me, but I told my self that was my home. The few months were fine but then I had to pay for college to write the finals. I gave my gold to my mother-in-law for safe storage. When I asked her the gold, she told me that I married his son, but they never received any dowri from my parents and I am burden to them and didn’t give me the gold. Later when I told this to my husband he got some money for my fees. Ever since that day my mother-in-law hated me. Few days later I found out that I was pregnant. I told this to my husband and his family. They weren’t happy about it. I stopped going to college. My mother in law sold all my gold without telling me and joined her daughter, my husband’s younger sister in a college. I couldn’t even argue with her. After I had my son, I felt better and he was the only good thing that was happening to me. Then while naming him I thought there shouldn’t be any caste affiliated to his name. But my husband named my sun with my middle name(caste) but my son is a SC according to government. Then my husband changed his name and added my middle name to his name so that it made him looked like he if from higher caste. I wanted to see my family after my son was named. But my mother-in-law had other plans. I didn’t see my family for like 2 years and I wanted to see then. My mother-in-law without telling me went to my home and told them that I still hated them and didn’t wanted to see them unless they got my brother married to her daughter. My father told her to get out of the house. From that day onwards my life became hell there. I seemed like my husband never loved me. After a few days I found out that my husband was seeing an other girl. I told this to my mother-in-law and she beat me and threatened to throw me out of the house. I once heard her telling to her daughter who was going to college with my money that she should marry someone rich from higher caste. I was shocked when I heard that. My husband started bringing that other woman to the house, she never even cared that I was in the house and was his wife. I confronted my husband about this. He blurted out that he never loved me and never will.

I knew it was time for me to leave that place and start a life on my own. I went to my house but my father was really angry with me, he actually thought what my mother-in-law told was true. My mother let me in but it took a really long time for them to start talking normally with me. My mom told me, she never saw my father cry before but he cried every night after I left them. I applied for a divorce and after a long time I finally got my divorce. I never told my parents about what happened there because they suffered a lot. I changed my son’s name and he is in general category. Happily going to school. I completed my college now and I am working at a good software company. One of my friends told me to file a case against my ex-husband and his family but I didn’t. I am happy now. But I will always regret that I didn’t listen to my parents.

So people reading this answer please listen to your parents. They love you the most and they are always there for you. Thank you.

~Anonymous