Is Marriage The Only Goal Of A Woman’s Life?

A wedding, the most awaited and happiest moment of one’s life, as they say, it carries far more different meaning and significance than its representation. The joy and celebration it brings to both the families involved too carries the same or different level of significance at times.

As cliché as it may look, but it can’t be ignored that getting married, is a lot different for a woman than it’s for a man and that’s a fact.

The changes it can bring in a woman’s life can’t be compared to that of a man, for it is still the most important and many at times the only criterion required to be called successful and happy in life.

Some women get married out of guilt

Above all, if a woman has crossed a certain age becomes an entirely different issue and public matter. It becomes more of an obligation out of guilt that she is slowly becoming a burden of some kind to her parents or family, no matter how much successful she is in life.

I may sound against this auspicious idea, but it’s not that. For as long as I can remember getting married was never my idea of settling down, though I never looked down upon it, but it never occurred to me as one of my life goals.

Women empowerment brought progressiveness to marriage

Some may say it to be a side effect of women’s empowerment, but for me, this stems deeper. We say that we as society are moving forwards towards being more progressive and liberal lifestyle than ever before, which excludes the fact that getting married, is not a regressive idea.

But considering it as the only thing to measure how much successful and happy or settled in life a person is, becomes a wrong yardstick which not only at a whole different level but absolutely out of sync.

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I have always believed being financially independent and mentally strong is more important than the getting married. Though I do believe that marriage is important for emotional well-being, but that does not make it superior to everything else that will happen in life.

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