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Grandfather's silence was enough. There was no option other than to accept it. Being the eldest of five of her sisters, she knew this would happen soon. But this soon, she had no idea. She was only 14. It felt as if society was waiting for her to hit puberty and marry her off. Is a child mentally and emotionally mature at the age of 14 years?
Marriage is so much about communication. Every step of life after that wedding day calls for the husband and wife to communicate – their likes, dislikes, their okay, their not-at-alls.
Anxiety over environmental degradation or ecological catastrophe is known as eco-anxiety. If a person is living in chronic fear of environmental damage and destruction, they might be suffering from eco-anxiety, also known as climate-change anxiety!
“I am a post graduate, working and earning well. Yet I do not have a single rupee in my savings, nor the freedom to spend on myself as I want.” Deepa, a 32-year-old, mother of a 3-year child, living in an upscale area in Delhi, working in a MNC recently made this statement to me.
The idea that a graduate woman makes a better wife is largely at play here. The general assumption is that when both the partners are working outside the house, their “family unit” is neglected.
As normal as this bride seeing may sound for we have been subject to this practice for years altogether, does it not bring up the question as to why this is bride seeing and not just a meeting of the prospective families?
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