The Melting Pot

What to do?

There is a teacher in my mother’s school—somewhere around 28 years in age, a science Post-graduate, very soft-spoken, responsible, pretty, tall and almost with all things desirable for being a good person, daughter, wife, daughter-in-law et al. But still hell shadows her. The story or rather the reality of her life is that the 1st night of her marriage, she was told by her husband that he loves someone else and he only married her for the sake of his parents. He’d have no relationship with her—physical or emotional. This situation didn’t change for 6 months. It was then, when amidst the neglect of her husband, tantrums of in-laws, almost imprisonment in a separate city—unknown to her, she decided to come to her father’s home here in Chd. . it has been more than 1 and a half year of her staying like this and she has now got a court-summon from her so-called husband asking for a divorce. She has decided to fight the case but to fight these kinda cases is not easy, with those ever-being-postponed court dates, humiliation of the girl and the end result of her devastation. This might sound like another story of a soap opera but no! it isn’t.

Her life is disturbed, she almost seems to be a blot on her parents (w/o her fault) and worst of all-has a bloody long life to go. What if she loses the case, no one really marries a divorcee of middle-class status. What if she wins the case, still the situation is not gonna change. There is no point in going and living with her husband again if she wins b’coz he is not gonna change.

What should she do?