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My Chaotic Marriage Helped Me Evolve!

From hatred to love. When I stopped trying to change my in-laws, I found healing.

Jyotishree
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5 min readJul 30, 2023

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I realized I never wrote anything about my married life, yet there’s so much I have to share with you.

I have been married for 4+ years. And the first 2 years were pure chaos.

In India, or at least with me, we live with our in-laws after marriage.

Yes, you can move out, but that wasn’t an option for me as my in-laws are old, and my husband is the only son (which means he is supposed to care for them).

If you are not from India, I know you will find many things weird, but even India is changing, and very soon, this culture of living with parents or in-laws might not be there!

Now, let me give you a background check.

I belong to a family where my parents never differentiated between a daughter and a son. Okay, I mean, they don’t have a son in the first place.

But they have raised me to be an independent woman who earns her money and knows how to take a stand for herself whenever required.

A son is considered more important than a daughter in my husband’s family. My in-laws had five daughters before they finally had a son.

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Jyotishree
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I write about freelancing, self development and spirituality.

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