Poor Ravi..!!!

While I don't come from a culture of arranged marriages, most people come from backgrounds where there is still some type of parental pressure to marry and have children by a specific age.

You also have to wonder where gay people fit in cultures where arranged marriage is the norm.

I felt so bad for Ravi, it didn't appear that his parents ever used the word 'love' when trying to find him a wife. The constant nagging and whining. It sure helped that he's an actor, because I cannot believe he lived with such relentless pressure, pressure to please his parents, not himself.

What about Ravi's wants and desires? All his mother kept going on about were having a specific amount of grandchildren. Hard to believe in this day and age people still live this way!

Ravi's an actor, yet he couldn't find a nice woman while going about his everyday life? Actors usually travel a lot, it seems he would have more access to interesting women while he was working. How about a woman who works behind-the-scenes in show business? Though, I'm sure his parents would prefer he marry a doctor!

Perhaps Ravi needed to move to a more cosmopolitan area. I forgot where he lived, There are a lot of Indian and Pakistani people living in metropolitan East Coast cities. He appeared to live in a boring suburb.

The white woman he ended up with, Audrey, didn't seem like such a catch. The phone call from her was a turn off. Why are nice decent men drawn to such types of women? I could care less if she was green, she seemed manipulative and annoying.

When she gave him a sort of ultimatum, that she wanted more than a friendship or else she'd stop being his friend, it was a typical mind game. She sounded like a whiny teenage girl. It felt as if she wore Ravi down, that, perhaps, he didn't even want her, he simply settled. Audrey came across as being just as unsuitable as a woman Ravi would have met in an arranged marriage.

The best relationships sometimes happen by chance, if a person works too hard at finding someone, they usually don't find the person they are looking for. Most settle.