Re: How to Balance between Mother and Wife?
Really? Do they ask you everyday if you have eaten or had enough sleep? Do they ask about your whereabouts everyday? The ONLY difference you are speaking of makes the biggest difference. I am sure parents worry about how their daughters are being treated but I highly doubt they have trouble going to bed worrying whether or not they are home, have eaten enough, or had enough sleep. The way mothers in our culture worry about their sons never changes even when they are married. Parents can’t wait to get their daughters married off so their “duty” is done. Daughters ultimately become someone else’s responsibility while they never let go of their own son(s). When parents fully understand that their daughter once married is someone’s wife and they give her full space, why don’t they extend the same courtesy to their sons? They have to know everything about their son’s life and cannot live without him but they advice their daughters “ghar ki batain ghar main rakha karo, apne maslay khud suljhao.”
Tell me why this shouldn’t bother us. Double standards just bother the heck out of me. This is not the only issue I feel strongly about. Just making that clear.