Sometime back I got an interesting sms forwarded. Copying it here:
God said: "I cannot be every where so I created MOTHER"
Devil replied: "Even I cannot be every where, so I created MOTHER IN LAW" :P
(This fact is not true for many girls. But for some, this is very true :))
6 comments:
nice one....:)
this is true for darker sex as welll
Hi IdontNeedName,
I like your coinage of the term 'darker sex'...i am hearing it for the first time.
I don’t agree with you. There are various reasons for that. A girl when gets married, she stays day-in-day-out with her husband and parents-in-law. But a boy never stays with his parents-in-law, unless he wishes to become a 'ghar-jamai'. So the amount of time that a girl spends with her mother-in-law is of no match to the time a boy spends with his mother-in-law. So, there is no chance of conflict. Moreover, the girl’s mother always wishes happiness for her daughter and is always at her toes to please her son-in-law.
Not always for everybody, but many times it happens that a girl undergoes a lot of physical, emotional and verbal abuse from her mother-in-law. There have been so many instances in our country. Every incident of such suffering is different from one another and the entire thing depends on the person, situation, and many other variables. So the result that comes out is also different. Some girls kind of adjust with such abuses. Most of the times if they find their husbands compassionate towards them, they don’t really mind the problematic mother-in-law. Some girls when don’t find compassion from anyone in her new house, they decide to resign to their fate, or commit suicide or some decide to quit. Whatever be the result, the boys’ mothers are more responsible for this more than anybody. They are so adamant to have things according to their wish that they don’t really bother that in doing so they are actually ruining their sons’ lives. If a wife commits suicide or walks out of the marriage, the guy cannot be really happy with the fact, isn’t it? And the boy also doesn’t realize that it’s his mother who ruined his life. If a mother loves her son more than herself then she would care for him first and would try to settle things between son and daughter-in-law instead of poisoning her son’s mind against his wife.
But honestly, I have never heard or seen a single instance where the boy has resigned to his fate or committed suicide or walked out of his marriage due to his mother-in-law!
I don’t know what’s your name, where you’re from, what you do, but from your comments I can say two things about you – 1) You lack sense of humour 2) You are argumentative by nature.
Kudos! I can not but doff my hat for your consummate text on “Mother-in-Law”. I bet this could lay foundation stone for yet another “saas.. bahu” soap on Indian Television.
At the same time, I agree with you completely on the fate of Indian women. It’s a shame that we continue to nurse ill habits of our society in some way or other.
On careful thinking, this seems to be a genetically driven problem with the feminine species. It has always been the case that a woman has got most problems with another woman. The sheer desire to execute authority over the household (including men therein) has led to all “Saas Vs Bahu” problems. And yes, I am talking about women in general, kiyunki saas bhi kabhi bahu thi.
Many cases, this authoritative nature of “saas” spread across her daughter’s household too and then the devil arrives for son-in-law. Please google to garner knowledge on oppressed husbands, their ill-fated life under skewed Indian law etc. There was a front page article about one such incidence this week in a leading news paper published from your city.
The son-in-law is being harassed (jailed here) in the hands of his spouse and parents-in-law just like any daughter-in-law becomes a victim of atrocities of her spouse and parents-in-law. It is unlikely that all living in that (in-law) household are torturous, however one who sees ill and doesn’t protest is equally guilty.
At the last, thanks a lot for giving me an opportunity to portray my augmentative nature. Blogs are excellent media to depict thoughts/arguments boiling inside a human and am so glad that you just gave me a handsome chance.
Hi IdontNeedName,
I appreciate your gesture of replying to my last comment.
Mother: Thank god for trusting me to become a 'Mother'.
Mother-in-law: Thank god for promoting me to 'Mother-in-law'. Devils do not see 'Mother' in 'Mother-in-law'.
Thank god for giving me the strength to become a Mother and then Mother-in-law.
~Chetna Dabral
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