Domestic violence- why not pay back in the same coin?
veena , delhi: Jul 8 2008
Made Popular Jul 8 2008

Yes, I got this inspiration from my cousin’s action. She is pretty, educated, employed in an MNC and married to a emotionally insecure, employed in a small private firm husband earning less than his wife To take out his frustrations it was always I will go away I will leave you for ever and then at the height of his frustration even used to hit her.
Naturally everyone in our family was disturbed. There was no way out seemingly as the parents were of the opinion that once married it is a life long commitment.We first decided to change the attitude of the parents, at first it was like talking to a wall but slowly they came to understand the fact that their daughter’s welfare came first, peoples’s opinion came nowhere in the picture They promised to support her the next time she had to undergo any physical or mental trauma.
This bought an unbelievable change in the attitude of my cousin, the very next time her husband hit her on a very trivial issue, she just packed her bags and shifted to her parents place .
This action caught her husband totally unaware, now he was absolutely shattered After a long, drawn out process of promises of mending ways, she finally relented to go back.
We were all amazed as to how a simple moral support or even a thought that you are capable enough to manage things could change the misery into happiness. Now both of them are adjusting to this new shift in their roles amicably.

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Desh
Shimla, India
Veena, what I just finished reading is a real thought-provoking story and you definitely deserve kudos to bring such a mundane issue to limelight; I assume appearing on IB is in itself enough sublimer a light.

There’s no harm in acting thus, if your spouse is a real bully. Yeah, one should definitely pay back in the same coin.
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veena
delhi, India
Thanks, I really feel that when the girls are married in India they are just let to fight their own battles whereas only a small moral support can lead to a well adjusted married life
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Asmita
Shimla, India
So your husband hits you and paying back in the same coin means persuading your parents to take you back??? I’m sorry Veena, I really admire your cousin for bearing it all, but I really cannot say that the trauma faced by her is in anyway the same thing as paying back, in any sense of the word.

Domestic violence is a major issue and just the fact that the family of the girl refused to even listen to her at first and their reluctance to take her in says a lot...

Not every husband is as repenting as your brother-in-law and majority of them just go back to their old ways after the wife comes back in...

I certainly think we need stronger laws to protect women from domestic abuse and the stigma regarding the issue certainly has to go...

Counciling and reconciliation are great, but preventive measures and intervention should certainly step in before the situation leads to an actual incident of the husbands daring to hit their wives.
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Gagandeep
Shimla, India
well I believe instead of making mountain of a mole its always better to deal with a problem at a very personal level. bringing laws into the picture will do nothing more than further make the situation worse and complicated ,adding thereby to broken homes.
certainly there is a need for stringent laws to tackle with the problem of domestic violence, but how many of our(female)friends and cousins will not abuse the laws...once a law is made it become a tool in the hands of public, chances are thereby to abuse it, just as article 498A of IPC is abused.
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veena
delhi, India
Well I think it is high time the concept most of the females are brought up in this country to accept any problem with their in laws as their destiny is changed Many a suffering could be reduced if both the girl and the boy are treated at par by both sides.
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Leena Komarraju
Kolkata, India
Its rather a sad plight of affairs that in our country domestic violence and dowry harassment are a part of many homes of India. Shamefully, a significant proportion of even the ‘erudite’ class is engaged in this. Many women are not as lucky as your cousin to get a husband who would be too ready to mend his ways with a simple change of attitude. I do strongly agree with people who say that stringent laws should be enforced to check this. What can you do if things are beyond the personal level of solving? I do feel every woman facing domestic violence should not see divorce as a solution, because the man on the other side will never learn. He will be too happy to get rid of her. I think she should get the social and legal support to save her marriage, eradicate unjust behavior and mend the ways of her spouse. The laws should be towards saving marriages and not breaking them.
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