Re: Post marriage independence, privacy or abandoning your parents?
Something I'd like to point out here...is this whole "abandonment" issue. I have yet to meet anyone - desi, gori or otherwise - who would abandon a parent in need. Its entirely a different issue when you have parent(s) who need assistance.
The majority of complaints against living with in-laws have always been when the in-laws are healthy and active and completely able to provide and care for themselves on their own. Which means that the new wife basically becomes their servant when she moves in.
Dont take that as a critisizm, some like that living arrangement and I would like it too if I lived in Pak...it doesnt work well in US though and even in Pak, it isnt the ideal situation for everyone.