Twitter User Asks Why Aren’t Marriages Lasting Like Our Grandparents’ Did, Gets Hard-Hitting Replies!
We as a generation have evolved a great deal from our parents and grandparents’ generations in almost every sphere of life. Our perspective of relationships, jobs, marriage, pregnancy, finances and just about everything is quite opposite to the thought our parents or grandparents have. Of the many things our society has evolved for, it has changed massively when it comes to understanding marriages. If a man or a woman fucks up, divorce is an option that is easily considered which was not the case during our dada-dadi and nana-nani’s times. So, when a Twitter user asked online why marriages are not lasting like our grandparents’ generations, other users came up with quite hard-hitting responses which are worth mentioning.
A Twitter user @damndee__ dropped this thought-provoking tweet wherein she asked what was the reason why marriages were not lasting as they did in our grandparents’ times. Most of the responses were about how divorce was not an option, then. Women were expected to put up with every wrong thing their husbands did because they did not have finances to fall back on in case they ever got separated from their husbands.
Divorce simply was not an option for their generation.
— Paul Ilett (@Paul_Ilett) March 21, 2023
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Our grandmothers had no money, no assets, no education, and nowhere to run. They couldn't open bank accounts or rent housing. They were broken on the wheel of continuous pregnancy, birthing, nursing, mothering. If they tried to leave, families and communities forced them back. https://t.co/37iFZKB0ZQ
— Shailja Patel (@shailjapatel) March 22, 2023
Women have more financial autonomy and men haven't bridged the gap on emotional intelligence to supplement not being needed as financial providers.
— 24k Stimmy Backpay (@JamirC17) March 21, 2023
100%! Women have gotten to the point in society where we don’t need a man to survive on our own anymore.
— lauren (@LaurenEJordan) March 22, 2023
I'll never forget an old woman's church testimony about her husband when ilI was little. "He may have strayed a few times, but he always came back!" Like sis was proud or something…
— Corbin Warner (@thecorbinwarner) March 23, 2023
Women today have become ambitious and will not settle with being someone’s wife or mother. Earlier if men cheated, women were expected to take them back but that is so not the case today.
Because women said no abuse & infidelity masked under polygamy. Because women realised that there's more to life than being called a wife & a mother.
— Mariam (@WairimuMariam) March 23, 2023
Because women now have more options than being trapped in a marriage to someone they don't want to be with.
— Jenny (@JHinkley24) March 21, 2023
Because people can now legally get a divorce and aren't trapped in marriages that kill their souls. Women can have their own jobs, bank accounts, and credit cards now as well so they can actually support themselves. For the love of god, STOP ASKING.
— Ashleigh's Paradigm Shift🦖🏳️⚧️🦕 (@ParadigmPins) March 21, 2023
A lot of people on Twitter also talked about how our grandparents should actually have gotten divorced as it would have saved our parents and, in turn, us from all the generational trauma.
I can't speak for anybody else's grandparents, but mine should've been divorced each other a long time ago it would saved the family from a lot of shit 🧍🏾♀️
— Vigilante Shit(April 29th💕) (@amarilov3u) March 21, 2023
Because women are now allowed to have their own bank accounts.
When my stepfather was 13, he had to go at his father with a hammer because he was choking his mother. Let's stop pretending our grandparents really had it that good.
— CharlieKnicks (@SkoolBusAnarchy) March 22, 2023
Personally, my maternal grandparents were divorced. They divorced when their only child was 4. My paternal grandfather ( sweet man!) had extramarital kids, one within the family even. Maybe this is why I don't get the "nostalgia"? Were they happy? Were they healthy?
— Aki (@akiMokoena7) March 22, 2023
After decades of loveless marriage, my grandma finally divorced my grandpa when they were in their 70s and only regretted not doing it sooner. Those kinds of marriages?
— Sarah Gioia (@sarah_gioia) March 22, 2023
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Women were always told to keep quiet and just go with the flow of things. They were told to compromise from the start because our society was highly patriarchal, then. It is patriarchal today but women no longer find themselves chained to do certain things. They have found the freedom to walk away from things that do not work for them.
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Kinjal Panchal
Kinjal is a reader of only fiction because, escapism, duh! But at the same time, she is a realist who needs proof of everything.
