They Forced Me To Marry This Man At 19

[no_hypocrisy]

Raised in a Haredi Jewish community, Fraidy Reiss was arranged to be married to a man she had known for three months when she was just 19 years old. Her former husband displayed numerous alarming behaviors, including threats to her life and violence.

Through unwavering courage and sheer determination, she managed to get out of her toxic forced marriage. She now leads a survivor-led nonprofit organization called "Unchained At Last", dedicated to eradicating forced and child marriages within the United States.

On Edit: My father's mother was forced to marry my grandfather in 1904. Her brother sold her into marriage. My father's father had been engaged to another woman for more than 3-1/2 years and jilted her, making her damaged goods and ineligible for future prospects in marriage. My aunt was born 9 months later, the product of marital rape. Because that's how they did it in "The Old Country" notwithstanding they had been in the U.S. for more than 20 years.

Unchained At Last Organization
https://www.unchainedatlast.org/

[Timeflyer]

1. Organized religions and patriarchy go together.

[pansypoo53219]

2. my aunt looked at these nuts w/ interest + i was oh hell no.

[NNadir]

3. Wow! What a remarkable woman to have survived and dedicated herself to the survival of others. K&R.