Originally posted by: pkbdas61
My daughter is currently living this nightmare that too in the US! She is married to an American marine and her husband is doted upon by his mother. The boy's mother used to do everything for him, from washing clothes to cooking to sorting things out... my daughter is fiercely independent...and she is small built... did not know how to drive a car too. Imagine what she must have gone through... she is smart and very quickly pushed herself and her husband to buy a home far away from his mom... she learnt to drive...she is the one who pays the bills, reads the fine print of documents (not easy in the US), manages the security system, cooks, washes, fixes things, works... and my SIL does nothing ( nice guy though) and his mother keeps visiting every now and then... this move has in some way limited the dependency of the son on the mother but has increased dependency on my daughter... men!!!! Sometimes it makes me wonder if men get married to have 24X7 live-in maids!
It is amazing but such things happen all over the world, not just India.
Truly, very very inspiring to see that there are girls out there who just don't give in to the system which has been going on for ages. Mothers often cry (talking only abt those who have this extremely dependent relationship with their son) that If a parent is pampering a child, there is no harm to it.
But, then like you said, the sad aspect to this part is that the dependency never ends, just shifts. There are men who co-exist with their wives,o r any female members of the family dividing all the responsibilities and then there is a majority of people who need either their mother, sister, wife or even daughter to carry out all the basic chores of life. And it makes me wonder if the society has been programmed in a way to typecast women for these tasks. Even yesterday, While Sonakshi was saying that Dev should not take Ishwari's help, gkb was elated. .but as soon as she said He will do tasks on his own, both Ishwari and GKB were shocked.
If men can't function with these tasks properly, it is a case of overburdening and if a woman falters here, she is inefficient.