If you ask me, hyper patriarchal societies are a hotbed for such insecurities and rivalries for control and attention of the male resource.
They keep women dependent on men first asking them to sacrifice and adjust or compromise. Later same women become too attached and possessive of their son or brother or grandson or husband and become insecure.
Or fear what if man leaves them for someone else.
It is important for women to have some work or life outside home IMO. If one revolves around only kids or husband all life and is available on demand for them 24/7, has no life beyond them, then she will get insecure after husband dies or son is busy with wife and kids.
Too many families ruined by this mamma's boy, raja beta, raja bhaiya syndrome and women being kept confined to home and not encouraged to study or work or have a circle beyond family.
Men mostly do not know how to balance and either take side of mom or wife or leave both to their devices and go about their work and think women do drama.
I agree about fear part in your post. Especially fears and loss of control and feeling irrelevant in old age.


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