AITAH for refusing to attend my cousin's arranged marriage because she told me she doesn't want it
This has been weighing on me for a while and I genuinely don't know if I'm handling it right.
My cousin and I are close, we talk about most things. A few weeks ago she told me in confidence that she doesn't want to go through with her upcoming marriage. She didn't choose the person, the family arranged it, and she feels like she has no way out. She wasn't asking me to do anything, she just needed to tell someone.
I've been struggling with what to do with that information ever since. I haven't told anyone in the family because she asked me not to. But I also can't bring myself to show up to the wedding and smile like everything is fine when I know she doesn't want to be there.
I told her I don't think I can come. She got upset and said she needs people there who care about her and that me not coming would make things worse for her. I felt terrible about that. But I also can't stand there and watch something happen that she herself told me she doesn't want.
I don't know what the right thing to do here is.
AITAH