Originally posted by: Sammi266
It's not right, and it's absolutely not fair, but I can believe that the woman reacted this way to a family of divorces. Divorce is only newly accepted socially, and even then, there'll be one divorced cousin or aunt in the family- it's unheard of that all the female relatives in a family will have been divorced. And in the socio-economic background that they've shown these characters from being it would totally make a small-minded woman wonder what the defect with the family was and whether a girl raised in such an environment would be able to make a marriage work. I don't think the author was commenting on the characters themselves, but about society for not understanding the position a woman would be in on divorce and how they fight to recover from it, because it's easy to just think that it was their fault and there's something wrong with them.
They weren't mourning their marriages, per se, but apart from dadi, their circumstances weren't that clear cut- so I think it's valid that they may have regrets and what ifs, even though they've got on with their lives.