Dear suitor

It is a universally acknowledged fact that a single woman in a Kuwaiti family is bound to need a husband. And so the search begins, not with a glass slipper, but with an interrogation. A Kuwaiti woman sits down for several meetings with potential candidates. Will any of them survive the next stage of engagement? For those not living in Kuwait: One way a woman meets her prospective husband is for the man's family to contact her parents for an initial meeting. He will come and sit with her and meet her. If both parties find the meeting satisfactory, they begin the engagement conversation. But what if they don't hit it off at first? What if he shows no interest in her? What if, despite your best intentions, you meet someone who rejects the idea of ​​marrying you? Then you sit down for another meeting. Then another meeting. Then another meeting. Then several more meetings... Then you turn those awkward meetings into stories. Or you unload your feelings in your diary. And if anyone but my brother reads this diary, so be it. As long as he doesn't blow me up on Twitter.