When Akshaye Khanna said he’s looking forward to finding a right partner but not mentally ready for marriage: ‘I have never received this feeling from anyone’

Akshaye Khanna has chosen to not marry and the actor has always been very vocal about his opinions on it. In an old interview, the actor had once mentioned how he is looking forward to finding a right partner, but so far he has never met anyone who gives him that feeling that he wants to spend the rest of his life with someone. When he was asked about why he hasn’t yet got married, he had said in an interview with Anuradha Prasad, “Life partner milna toh chahiye. You need to find the right girl for yourself before deciding to get married. It is wrong to marry for the sake of it, thinking family is putting pressure on you and you did it. That’s wrong.” He added, “I don’t have anything specific that I need in my partner. When you fall in love, you fall in love with the totality of the person. It can’t be one reason. I have never received this feeling from anyone who would make me want to spend the rest of my life with her. It has not happened yet.” Akshaye did seem hopeful to find his lady love though. “I am hoping it will happen one day,” he said. But he also added that he’s not mentally prepared to get married. “I don’t think I am mentally prepared for it. Neither do I know if I can do the adjustment. But, I guess when a person falls in love, they can do it. I will never settle for an arranged marriage. It has to be love. I will be able to do all the compromises that people usually do in a marriage is only when I am madly in love with that person. Otherwise, it won’t be possible at all.” This was a while ago. In a more recent interview, it seemed like the ‘Taal’ actor has completely dropped the idea of getting married. He said during a chat with Hindustan Times, “I don’t see myself getting married. I am not marriage material. I am not cut out for that kind of life. It is a commitment, but a drastic lifestyle change. Marriage changes everything. I want full control over my life. When you share your life with somebody else, you can’t have full control. You have to give a lot of control away. You share each other’s lives. I am not willing to give up. I don’t think even in the future I will be willing to do that.”