If I have a partner who treats me with the utmost respect, counts me as equal, validates my opinion, takes equal kitchen duties, and respects my space, then doesn’t matrimony seem the right step?
When a woman gets married, a small pinch of sindoor demands a lot of sacrifice and obligation from her.
Marrying early, marrying late or not marrying at all are choices that should be left for women to make.
Every woman should be encouraged to earn an identity for herself besides being someone’s daughter or wife.
The choices that a woman makes must define her life, not the aspects of her beauty or marriage.
Is it right to think that just because a marriage is sacred, a person must adjust through it even though they are in an unhealthy alliance?
Will all men readily marry women who have been deemed “used goods”? If not, then it is unfair to demand that women should be open about their past relationships with their prospective husbands.
Even before the bride enters her marital home, expectations are set and she has to willingly or unwillingly fulfil them or be labelled as a bad bahu.
At the end of the day, it all comes down to the matter of choice and agency women hold.
Are husbands just means of survival for women? Without love how is it possible to sustain a marriage?
