Originally posted by: Winterberry
Both love and arranged marriages are gamble ! If all well then good but things get difficult especially for girls if things are going south!
if arrange marriages go wrong or fall apart at-least u have family support but in case of those who elope especially girls will be left alone if things go wrong ! Imagine u cut off all ties for a guy and his family doesn’t accept u and he is abusive ur left with no one to go back!
Two examples of both sides -
I have two helps one is in 40 , arrange marriage with grown up kids and her husband is one Romeo , he keeps having affairs doesn’t support her and kids and she is running around making ends meet. Says can’t even go back to village they will take me back but I will become burden and dependent on them and says have their emotional support and it keeps me going !
The other one is 23 years old, fell for wrong guy few years back , eloped and married against her family , the guy is useless and workless and mother in law has snt her to city
to work , she sends a major chunk of her money to thm. Can’t go back as my family won’t take me back and can’t even leave them as idea of being alone is scary !
Both are financially independent but still life played cruel game ! Life is such !
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