Love Letter: Single, yet enthralled by the prospect of marriage.

This week’s Modern Love essayist, Shubnum Khan, is 36 and unmarried. He resides in New York City along his family. Because she was supposed to be married by the age of 25, this is not the future she had envisioned for herself. Despite this, she loves her life and the unique kind of domestic happiness she has discovered with her parents, who continue to make each other — and her — laugh a lot despite their differences.