Reading it reminded him of a period in my life, my mids, when we were searching for a groom for me. I am a South Indian who grew up in Mumbai. But of course, I had to track it down. Since its release on July 16, Indian Matchmaking is all my Twitter stream can talk about.

This article explores issues of partner choice and marriage among the attitudes about marriage and the processes for partner choice including arranged marriages, Young men did not date Indian girls and viewed Indian girls dating others.

In the traditional, American order of things, this is how a marriage happens: You meet someone, you date, you get engaged, you get married. But of course this isn’t how it works for everyone. According to a statistic from ABC News , about 60 percent of all marriages worldwide are arranged — or the couple is set up by family to marry each other and often don’t meet long before their wedding day. A recent Ask Reddit thread posed the question to people who are actually in arranged marriages themselves: What’s it really like to be married to someone you didn’t know for years, or even months, before committing for life?

For American boys, I was too Indian. For Indian boys, I was too American. Never officially dated and studied a lot. Went through countless meetings with boys from Indian matrimonial sites and never clicked with anyone. As I reached my 30s, the pressure started to mount. My father sent me a random profile and said he wanted me to look at it.

I was not at all interested. I pretended to be my dad and sent an email to his dad.