Tuesday, 2 June 2026

I’m a woman in my mid twenties.

I’m a woman in my mid twenties. I got married 3 years ago to a guy arranged by my parents and relatives. When we got married, his sister who was older than me was still unmarried. My parents even expressed concerns before our marriage but guy’s mother said not to worry and the sister is actually excited to spend time with me before her marriage. It was also told that I was not well versed in any house hold chores as I had just completed my degree and very career oriented. My MIL agreed for this as well and said she will teach me everything and take care of me like her own daughter. But after marriage, everything changed. His sister was jealous of me because I had a better job (not an assumption, my husband said himself) than her even though she has more education (I’m an engineer with BE degree and she has done M.Tech) She started controlling my husband by saying he is not allowed to spend time me as she is still unmarried. It was always said as a joke but had a serious undertone and he even followed as she said. I endured all of it thinking it will be better once gets married. She got married after a year and things changed for worse. My MIL started to compare me with her daughter as daughter-in-law’s and tried to financially abuse me. Asked to give all my salary and expected to do all house hold chores like a maid. I retaliated a bit, I was okay with doing house work as it is my duty but didn’t give my money as I was not treated as a family. Worst part is my husband stayed quiet. After an year of enduring this, I confronted my husband and he outright denied the situation, so I left him. After few months of separation, elders from his side decided for us to live alone and confronted my MIL and SIL on their bad behaviour. This went well for three months. During this time, I got pregnant. He was frustrated because his mother was throwing temper tantrums every time he visited them. I was not in contact with MIL and SIL but FIL used to visit us in our new home. He started verbally abusing me and we were fighting non stop during my pregnancy. He outright said that I’m not his family, I didn’t say anything to this but I stopped everything I was doing for them. We were sending money every month, I stopped my contribution to it. We wanted to buy a house using FIL’s savings of 20Lakhs as down payment with 90Lakhs loan on my name (50–50 ownership) I said, since I’m not family, I do not want any joint ventures with them. Also, when we got married, we were earning almost same but in 3 years, my salary has doubled and his stayed the same because of lack of up-skills. He made me go alone to my doctor appointments and scanning. During 7th month, we had a huge fight about baby shower and when my mother tried to mediate, he was rude to her and all his complaints were about my not giving money. When I asked why he wants money from someone who is not his family, he had no answers. So I came to my parents place with my mother. Now my son is 4 months old and none of them have visited him once. My husband came to the hospital when my son was born. He tried to talk to me but I didn’t respond because I was angry that he didn’t come to talk after I left and I didn’t get to have my baby shower as it was my dream since I got pregnant. I was already set on divorcing him. Now it has been 4 months and he hasn’t visited again to see his son nor his parents to see their grandson. Am I overreacting by thinking of divorce? Is there anything salvageable here?

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