Anita Moorjani

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The School of Greatness · The Fear Was Killing Her, Not the Cancer | Anita Moorjani · 6 May 2026 podcast

My Indian friends had got married.

So finally I gave in and I got engaged.

And then when I got engaged, the realization hit me of what the rest of my life would be like.

Because I discovered the family I was going to marry into.

They didn't want me to work outside the home because I had whenever I had said to my own parents, I want to work, I want to travel.

And they would say, you can do that after you're married if your husband approves of it.

So again, in our community, in our culture, a woman doesn't move out of her parents' house.

She leaves when she gets married and then she will live with her husband and most likely his parents as well.

As long as you're single, you stay with your parents.

Right.

At that time.

Of course, it's changing.

But this is to give you the background of my own life, my culture, the upbringing.

And yes.

Okay.

And then... So I was actually engaged for quite a few months, during which time I was able to get to know the family.

And...

And I realized I had made a mistake in agreeing to it.

But by that point, you're discouraged from backing out because you're being told all the way along that if you back out, no one else is going to marry you because you will have tarnished your reputation.

And I discovered that they weren't going to let me work outside the home.

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