I know if I don't like something, ideally I should refrain from commenting and walk away from it but the woman in me refuses to do so even if this is just a story on a forum.
I couldn't read beyond a point.
I am appalled that Khushi is portrayed as a woman who takes all kind of abuse - emotional, verbal and physical - and still worships the ground that her husband walks on.
Arnav is an a****e and she is desperate to have him love her. And yes, leaving her alone in the house, telling the maid not to come while he is away is also physical abuse, it is not just beating up a woman. The man is responsible for the woman becoming all stick and bones and all we want to say is "awww" when he finally decides to stop being an a****e.
And Khushi's dad is APPALLING! Which father stands by and watches his daughter slowly fading away but is happy that she is with the man she loves and pathetically watches hoping that the jerky son-in-law will one day start loving his daughter.
It is stories like this which explain why women continue to be ill treated in our society because somewhere there is someone who believes it is quite all right to put up with crap from the man because he is your husband and because you love him and go running the day he wags his little finger at you throwing a few crumbs your way?
And everyone praises a story that glorifies a woman who accepts and puts up with abuse and still hankers for love from the very man who metes it out. There is a clinical term for this - the Stockholm Syndrome - a psychological phenomenon in which hostages express empathy and sympathy and have positive feelings toward their captors, sometimes to the point of defending and identifying with the captors. It is not love, it is a kind of illness.
I am sorry for being so vocal on a thread that is a simple story but there are young, untutored minds who read the stuff that is written here, admire it and believe that it is ok to be so.
You have to work with women who have been emotionally abused to know what this does to their self esteem, their persona, their self belief and the havoc it wreaks on their emotional and mental well being and then perhaps you will understand why I am so upset after reading this piece.
Edited by DMGFan-2b-not2b - 10 years ago
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