Twitter Thread Highlights How Indian Society Makes It Hard For Women To Leave Abusive Marriages Or Be Single
My Nani was a woman very ahead of her time as she divorced her husband while having a daughter. She raised my mother while holding a full-time job at a university. Yeah, she was pretty badass. Because of this, the idea of divorce and leading life as an independent woman was never taboo or foreign to me. However, I was up for a rude awakening as I grew older and realised that these ideologies hadn’t been normalised for everyone in our society. Women remaining unmarried and building a life of their own aside, women who are unhappy in their marriages were encouraged to stick it out or endure it. Check out this tweet I came across today which talks about exactly this,
A Twitter user who goes by @sadelokeshi has tweeted and highlighted the plight of so many women that are stuck in unhappy or abusive marriages. She said that unless a woman is almost dying, her parents will not support their daughter in getting a divorce regardless of her marriage is going. She further added that being a single woman in India is even worse and the regressive mentalities don’t seem to be going anywhere for the coming 40 years. Check out the tweets here:
it’s difficult to leave an abusive marriage in India, let alone an incompatible one. unless a woman is almost dead, her liberal parents won’t allow to break a marriage and breaking an incompatible marriage is impossible because she will be ridiculed for being an uppity woman
— aa khushi se khudkhushi karle (@sadelokeshi) April 4, 2022
and living as a single woman in India is hell in another way. I wish there were easy solutions for women but given the way society is going, I don’t think we will see any significant shift in mindset for the next 40 years.
— aa khushi se khudkhushi karle (@sadelokeshi) April 4, 2022
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Tweets flooded in talking about their own experiences and observations. Many of these twitters users pointed out how regressive Indian parents and society’s mindset is regarding the concepts of marriage and divorce.
Indian parents prefer a dead daughter over a divorced one, just saying!
— Kyakahein (@KehHiDeteHai) April 5, 2022
In many cases women earn yet they don't hv access to money, its handled by husband, father, brother etc, they need to learn banking as well
— Amit Vikram Deepraj (@avdeepraj) April 5, 2022
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The no of single mothers i have known are astonishing. Many ended up having kids thinking it will sober up the marriage but it only got worse.
— Mandar M (@Watsay) April 5, 2022
My Nani has always told me stories of when she chose to separate from her husband. About how hard she had to work with no real support from her family and society being a single mom raising a daughter. And it is heartbreaking to see that so many decades later, nothing has really changed. While we have taken some steps forward, we have definitely taken steps backwards too.