#dowry system

Dowry /جہیز /दहेज

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This made me laugh as my friends say it takes me so long to break up with people that eventually they think it was their idea. I’m okay with that.

I broke up with one guy in high school really poorly. I’d been avoiding him, never a good idea and he confronted me and I dropped the bomb and walked away feeling 100 lbs lighter, it wasn’t until I turned around to see his crestfallen face that I realized that there were two sides to these matters and both were equally important.

I’m still in touch with every man that I’ve dated, who's still alive (2 have died). I’m friendly with nearly all of their wives. These are good people, we were just not the right people for each other. 

When I turned 35, Mom called and said bitterly that she’d given up on me ever marrying so she’d send me the linens which comprised my dowry. They were all handmade by my great grandmother. She made a set for each of my sisters and I, back when we were kids. Yep, doilies, plus tatted lace edging on bath towel sets, dishtowels, sheets, you name it. A few cut work pieces, the works. I love all of these pieces and that she made them by hand, specifically for me.

However, I think the only person whose heart I’ve broken was my mom’s. She really wanted me to settle down, get married, have kids (even though she knew kids weren’t possible without adopting). The Dowry “gift” was a passive aggressive, but nice, gesture on my mom’s part. I'd been engaged a couple of times, and was a serial dater. I don’t know that she ever got over that marriage wasn’t something that was important to me. She wasn’t from an era where it would have been possible for someone to live a full life as a single woman.

Her generation made that life possible for my generation, for which I’m eternally grateful.

Mom was 19 when she got married and had three kids by the time she was 23. Whereas I've been self-employed my entire career, traveled the world (mostly solo), bought my own cars, bought my own house and property. I've loved the men in my life and loved sharing my life with them but I'm also capable of maintaining my life outside of a man supporting me. That’s important to me.

I thought about telling her that K and I were secretly married, while she was in hospice but it was good enough for her that we were still a couple when she died.

#WarAgainstDowry

A man who keeps dowry as an essential condition for marriage, insults the nation and disrespects all women as well!

#WarAgainstDowry

Truth will be your dream, dowry free will India only by understanding spiritual knowledge of Saint Rampal Ji Maharaj.

New Delhi News: दहेज प्रथा को लेकर Supreme Court ने सोमवार को बड़ी टिप्पणी की है। कोर्ट ने कहा कि दहेज प्रथा को खत्म करना आज की सबसे बड़ी जरूरत है। सुनवाई के दौरान जजों ने माना कि मौजूदा कानून पूरी तरह प्रभावी नहीं हैं। कई बार इनका गलत इस्तेमाल भी होता है। इसके बावजूद यह सामाजिक बुराई हर जगह फैली हुई है। न्यायमूर्ति संजय करोल और न्यायमूर्ति एन. कोटिश्वर सिंह की बेंच ने इसे रोकने के लिए सख्त…