Re: If Someone You Knew…
Emotional blackmail, mothers saying how will they live with the shame, saying they will have a heart attack, threatening to throw them out (obv worse for girls.. a lot of the ones who are forced to marry haven’t been allowed much of a life outside the family anyway so don’t have a big support network of friends who can let help them, let her stay at their house etc.).. I’ve heard of older brothers threatening to beat their sisters up in these situations + sisters saying ‘you have to go along with it or you’ll break the family up’ as well so sometimes pressure from siblings too..