Boyfriend is saying he was engaged against his will...

Boyfriend is saying he was engaged against his will...

Dear Diana,

I am 22. My boyfriend is 26. He recently went back to his native place in Bihar. On his return, he told me that his family had set up a match for him. When I asked him why he never told them about me, he tells me that it all happened too soon and that he had no time wherein to make them understand that he was already in love with someone else (me!). He has returned, engaged. He says that he hadn't even met the girl before this and that they had called him home under another pretext. He hasn't been home in four years, so it's believable that they would do something like that. Only trouble is, the marriage date has been fixed to early next year. I believe in and love him but am at a loss to understand how he cannot tell his parents now. We belong to the same caste. So I don't see a problem. Also, my parents are fond of him, so I don't see a problem at their end.