Matched By Mom: Arranged Marriage In America

How do you marry someone you haven’t lived with? It’s a question Shad Imam has heard over and over again, most recently from a woman sitting next to him on a plane.

He knows it sounds weird, but after nearly six years of marriage, what he has works. And he can’t imagine being with anyone other than the woman his mother picked out for him.

“It depends on your expectations,” Imam says. “My expectation was that I would love my wife regardless of who she was.”

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