A woman from Gujarat has announced that she would marry herself in what she described as an \u201cact of self-love\u201d. This wedding is seen as one of the country’s first instances of self-marriage or \u201csologamy\u201d<\/span>.<\/span><\/p>\n Sologamy is the act of marrying oneself in a public ceremony, also referred to as self-marriage or autogamy.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n While such a marriage has no legal sanction or status, the symbolic ceremony is used by many as an act to emphasize their self-love and independence.<\/span><\/p>\n It can be traced back to a dental hygienist from the US who married herself in 1993. It is widely considered the first publicized act of self-marriage.<\/span><\/p>\n A sologamy divorce was also reported in 2021 when a Brazilian model announced she was ending her solo marriage after falling in love with someone else.<\/span><\/p>\n Source: <\/b>The post is based on the article<\/span> \u201cExplained: What is sologamy or \u2018self-marriage\u2019?<\/b>\u201d <\/b>published in <\/span>Indian Express <\/b>on 2nd June 2022.<\/b><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" What is the News? A woman from Gujarat has announced that she would marry herself in what she described as an \u201cact of self-love\u201d. This wedding is seen as one of the country’s first instances of self-marriage or \u201csologamy\u201d. What is Sologamy? Sologamy is the act of marrying oneself in a public ceremony, also referred… Continue reading Explained: What is sologamy or \u2018self-marriage\u2019?<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":10317,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1566,7965,9],"tags":[10500],"class_list":["post-188112","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-daily-factly-articles","category-miscellaneous-daily-factly-articles","category-public","tag-indian-express","entry"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","views":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/188112","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/10317"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=188112"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/188112\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=188112"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=188112"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=188112"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}What is Sologamy?<\/b><\/h5>\n
When did the trend of Sologamy begin?<\/b><\/h5>\n