Bengalis have this custom called aiburobhat where the would-be bride is fed delicacies by her relatives & friends. This goes on every day for at least 10-12 days.
Nice and all, but the marriage-opposing grinch in me cannot help but liken it to fattening a sheep for slaughter 😪
finding out I have been depressed for over 2 years was hard but what was more hard was not being diagnosed sooner not reaching out for help sooner dealing with all of it alone and convincing myself all of what I was going through was somehow normal