Re: Forced Marriage
I know they were not happy. But that doesn’t mean he has to ditch her after keeping her for six years! Imagine the turmoil she will have to go through when she returns back to her family divorced after six years of marriage! Our culture and society are not easy upon a divorced woman whether she is at fault or not. Six years of marriage means she is at least 30+ years old. At this age ladies even who are single have a hard time finding a good rishta. Imagine the plight of the poor lady and her parents who will have a divorced daughter at the age of 30+! That woman has given him the best part of her age of her youth no matter how he treated her, yet he wants to throw her away like a piece of useless trash?The wife already knows he doesn’t like her, she is already not getting most of her rights from him, and still she wants to live with him , she would most probably prefer to living with a second wife than getting divorced and returning back to her parents. However, we strangers, as a third person cannot really determine what the wife wants and what the husband should do. He needs to talk to her about it and find out what she wants, divorce or not. And then determine his course of action from there. If she agrees to let him marry, he can go ahead and marry another woman of his choice while supporting his first wife financially. His parents would probably still make a fuss about it but since he is already up for taking a stand for himself he can do it in a way which does not cause harm to the other party.
The wife knew about his feelings well before the marriage.. if someone is crazy about me and does not consider divorce as an option.. whats binding me to continue living life like this.. Even if he does remarry and does not divorce this wife, how will it be any different than ditching her ? He wont be living with her either way. Why would the second wife be willing to tolerate the first one if the husband does not want to keep any kind of relationship with the first one?