The insult that wasn't meant as one
You brought it up once. Maybe carefully, maybe after reading something, maybe because a friend's divorce left her with nothing. And the room changed. Your partner's face did something you couldn't name. His mother found out and called it inauspicious. Your own mother asked what kind of woman plans for a marriage to fail before it begins. The prenup conversation in India does not stay a conversation. It becomes evidence, of coldness, of suspicion, of the particular kind of modern woman who loves conditionally.
