text: bumped into my ex the other day....? and it has been 2 years since i last saw him. we broke up because his family did not accept that i was not of his background/religion. he told me he got married six months ago (arranged) and is not happy at all and regretted not having fought harder to save our relationship back then. i, on the other hand, am happy with who i am with now but i wonder if there are couples out there who are unhappily married because of the pressure of family?? yes there are. and it doesn't have to be because of religious pressure either. a friend of mine got married because she'd had to promise her mother that she would as soon as she could because she was already...26. they aren't happy, but for some it's a ring on the finger that's more important than anything else - even happiness.