ABSTRACT
In the year 2000, Lyn Na really married. Three years after she and her partner formalized their relationship at the Registry of Marriages (ROM), and four years after they applied to buy a flat from the Housing and Development Board (HDB), they held a “customary” wedding, renovated their new flat, and moved into their new home. In the years between what she refers to as their “ROM” and “customary,” Lyn Na lived with her husband—in separate bedrooms—in her widowed mother-in-law's flat.
