Here is a true story that I wish to narrate. I
have suffered it. I believe that time waits for no man. This is the true story;
I was undergoing the life that I had never ever imagined. I was the type who
always dared to be different, a sort of pioneer and a leader or rather a
trend-setter and very fun-loving kind. I
was the kind who in the face of hardship would walk fearlessly towards any
challenges that life offered to me, always with a smile and positive vibrations
running in every part of my system. I would go to the bottom-most level to seek
the truth of any matter that disturbed me and one can be very sure that I was
triumphant in all my endeavors before I got married.
I had a very middle class up-bringing as in
spite of all luxuries my parents kept all 3 of us grounded. My parents had
instilled enough of discipline in along with my other two siblings, to hold our
heads high with pride, frankness and uprightness. I was brought up to believe
that Justice will always win and to be as wholehearted about other's success as
if it was our own. I was put in to one of the best School in Dalhousie for
a proper and chaste moral discipline so it was expected that I was highly
educated and had a very broad standpoint on life.
Now, you must be wondering, so what is special
about me? Right? Nothing, only the fact that one person changed my whole life
in a jiffy(rather the arranged marriage), a very neat and clean head-over-heels
to the depths of agony and suffering which I am undergoing even today. I guess
you would ask out of curiosity - "Who is it?" Patience, my dear friends!!!
It is none other than my husband, mother-in-law and sister-in-law. From day
one, they began their calculative mind, preying on my temperament, my father’s
property, chastity and chalking out devious means to pull my virtue down, in their
overly enthusiastic hunger for and greed for money, reputation and humiliation.
They were the type who just could not bear the fact that someone could outsmart
their son or outshine him in any field. In fact I loved my husband just too
much, trusted him to the core about just everything under the sun, placing him
on top priority every time
This reminds me of a quote by F.W. Robertson
wherein he states that, " Marriage is not a union merely between two
creatures - it is a union between two spirits; and the intention of that bond
is to perfect the nature of both, by supplementing their deficiencies with the
force of contrast, giving to each sex those excellencies in which it is
naturally deficient; to the one, strength of character and firmness of moral
will; to the other, sympathy, meekness, tenderness; and just so solemn and
glorious as these ends are for which the union was intended, just so terrible
are the consequences if it be perverted and abused; for there is no earthly
relationship which has so much power to ennoble and to exalt."
They began by first trying to isolate their family
from me. Cooking up tales, spinning yarns that were absolutely not true, but fabricated,
so that his cousins and extended family drew themselves away from me, in every
respect making me feel abandoned, deprived of love and security. What does a
new bride do under these circumstances in a traditional marriage? I did not
need the support of anyone else in the family other than my husband to whom I was
betrothed to. When this is denied to my accessibility, what is left for me?
Whom do I turn to? Where can one go?
Their next target was his friends, colleagues
and their spouses and children. He realized that I was friendly with them, as I
wanted to inter-act with someone. I was the type to make friends easily because
of my nature. The day their ears were filled by my husband, sister in law and
mother in law they too drifted away from me. So, you see how lonely can a husband
and in-laws made me feel, after marriage. They made it a point that they will
go to any length to make me as depressed as possible so that I would in due
course destroy myself when driven against the wall. Not replete with this act
of a demon, they began torturing me even more with each passing day by making
demands of extracting more money from my parents and even to help them buy an
apartment.
With help from my father I was offered a job
as Senior branding and Training Executive in King Group Hospitality they run a
chain of restaurants in Dubai. I was deprived of the basic amenities after marriage.
The emotional and mental torture increased so much that I was not able to give
attention to my job and my chairman who happens to be my father’s friend asked
me to take a few months break and join again later. Little did he know that
what was happening with me back home?
When my husband, mother in law and sister in
law got to know this the torture worsened seeing all this I asked my parents to
visit me in Dubai. I tried to tell my Sister in laws husband who has come to
visit in Dubai for holiday from Leicester. But when saw this she and my husband
quietly called me in the kitchen and hit me.
On 6th August my parents came to
visit me and they were shocked seeing me and my condition my mother just hugged
me and started crying and mom dad saw their true colors little did they know
that they were such demons who had no love and respect for their daughter or
them. All what mattered to them was just money.
They took all my earnings, my entire gold, the
cash which they demanded at the wedding and even after all this on 9th
august which was my anniversary day they threw me out of the house.
Indian
women are known for their sense of patience, their loyalty and perseverance in
sticking on to a bond that they hold so sacred. But came a time when I saw the
light of the day and told myself, " ENOUGH IS ENOUGH!!! Now what triggered
this sea change in my attitude? Just a simple statement my husband when he exclaimed, that shook the day
lights out of my system, I have all these months looked upon you as just a
W****!!!
Friends tell me, would any one of you
withstand such an accusation coming from your husband and in-laws?
Today, I am fighting it legally desperately
seeking justice.
I am sure that there are countless such
stories with more misery that any human can bear to hear, read or speak about.
This is just awareness brought to you about
Indian Marriages. Yes; people like me suffer, because today's world accepts
people with low morals, low credibility and people who have no humaneness in
them.
Hope I get justice so that no other girls questions her existence.
Hope I get justice so that no other girls questions her existence.
Rab Rakha!!!!!
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