i don't want to get married

I knew what I wanted in her life – to get an  education and become a teacher. I was able to stop my own marriage  and continue my studies but many other girls  are not in the  same position. When i was just 16 years old, my mother told me that a family  would come and make me a marriage proposal. The ninth grader couldn’t  concentrate at school as she was familiar with her village’s tradition  of marrying away girls before they turn twenty. I feared that my parents might agree with the proposal under  pressure from their community. When she returned home from school she  made it clear to her parents: “I won’t marry unless I am 20 under any  circumstances. Please send away the family that is coming to see me  tonight.” She pleaded with her mother to stop the wedding. The prospective groom arrived with his family after i had gone  to bed. Due to my stance against the marriage, my parents  declined the marriage proposal despite the family promising affluent  life for their daughter as the boy was going abroad for work.