THE JOYS
OF WOMANHOOD
Understanding the
rising divorce rate in the Sub-Continent
Today the divorce rate in the Sub-Continent is rising and the number
of divorcee women is rising!
Every one
find their convenient reason to blame and absolve themselves of being the root
cause but the inevitable truth often ignored is that it takes two hands to
clap.
Being a female that has survived childhood and continues to
live in the Sub-Continent as an adult is something that is quite an achievement from my
perspective.
From the minute you are
born it is instilled into your brain by your relatives that your sole purpose
in life is to say yes to anything the family elders tell you and that you must attain an incredibly high education and look like a Holly Wood star. But after that prepare
yourself to say yes to an arranged marriage to a man who will dominate you for the rest of
your life.
Should you decide for a career or your independence it will always down played and your self confidence will purposely be shattered making you an emotional slave to the mother in law to whom you are "actually" married to.
Right from the start of being a girl child one realizes that
life can become quite unfair. It does
not matter whether you live in a village and walk to your fields or you live in
the big cities and have a chauffeur driven vehicle that takes you to the office
because irrespective of what your social status is society and your family will
always have an inconvenient reality check there to suppress you somehow!
Females have always been at the receiving end of criticism somehow
and from someone from the minute they are born and society wants to
inconveniently liberate them.
Irrespective of the generation the Sub-Continent’s younger females have an immense
amount of enemies hidden in their friends that are a catalyst to them having
more problems even before they enter into the saas bahu relationship stage of
their lives. - By the way every Bitter saas was a warm, kind, loving soul until society made her into a monster saas.
The way I see it most women from the Sub-Continent are trophies to men
who parade them in society trying to depict a lifestyle publicly that simply
does not exist. Women might not admit it
but they are constantly under societies critical eye waiting for them to mess
up. It’s exactly like having a pedigreed show dog with papers on a very tight
leash.
In the past fifteen years more women in the Sub-Continent have divorced their
spouses and decided to live on their own and the reason for that is very
simple. “The men they were involved with
were simply not good enough for them when they got married helplessly or the women chose to evolve and break free from the shackles and hand cuffs they had self imposed!”
People think that a woman is being emotional
or erratic when she decides to divorce a man but little do they ever try to
listen to her with an open understanding mind.
Divorce be it in in any setting personal or professional only happens
when a woman has had enough and simply refuses to compromise on the core values
she stands for within herself and has defined her own boundaries and cares more for her self respect and herself over everyone else.
If one asks any man who is divorced what exactly happened –
seldom will you get a befitting answer that is close to the truth. Most men will often give shoddy reasons for
the split which one can expect to be that the spouse was cheating and or
anything except for the reality of the here and the now.
Men find women to be extremely complicated creatures and
feel comfortable that in a countries in the Sub-Continent a woman’s identity is linked
to the man she is hitched to. Therefore,
I feel that most husbands take their wives for granted quite a lot think that the women will crumble if the relationship were to end. Sometimes it is a setback for the women but an opportunity look at it like the best thing to have ever happened to them.
If you look at another paradigm I think that women are quite
simple creatures because they base their entire existence on two principles
which are honesty and respect. With any
one element missing in the picture any relationship in life cannot exist.
Further to that I feel that women are more
resilient to handling pain and have the ability to inwardly digest and ignore social
stigmas and agony that is created all around them because they have been raised
to be perfect.
Today women are armed and in the work force and women know
their rights which is an awesome and amazing thing. If one looks at society today one will notice
the balance of power has shifted because women have the unique ability to be a stabilizing
force for the people in their lives and their partners.
Another thing that the Sub-Continent society has come to realize is
that with education being the driving force now men actually have to work hard
to keep up with their spouses because most families now NEED a dual income to
survive.
So with the wife also being forced to become a bread earner no longer does it make business sense to try to bully the other
source of income into a situation that will be stressful for all.... and taht is where the saas and family politics come into play to down play her and ensure that "enough time is given to the home"! - The in-laws are really out-laws that will do any and everything to add to the problems and in the normal joint family only complain.
As time goes on and more and more western influence seems to
infiltrate our lives the only thing left for men to do would be to start
listening to their spouses. If men can listen to their partners in the Sub-Continent with the intent to understand where they come from
and just be honest to themselves.
As long as a man can come to grips with the reality that he would not do as well
as he is if their spouse left them and that he too needs to step up all will work out.
Today no longer does a woman have to be good
enough and come with a massive dowry to be accepted by her in laws. Men need to be very different cowboys worthy
enough to be suitors for any woman.
If you would like to contact me for a free consultation, please directly email me at - amyn@ghulamalis.com
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