most importantly... the divorce cases are now on increase in india... a harsh reality ! (pls. add this in yr list)
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1. Marriage to a successful techie, beginning a new life in a new city - it seemed like a beautiful dream for Poonam Nath. But within a year, everything turned bitter and the couple separated. Poonam is not alone.
2. "Now, I am staying alone and have managed to get a job in a BPO and am earning my livelihood," said Poonam, 23, who belongs to Kolkata. Her name has been changed on request.
3. Arvind Kumar is in the same situation. He was divorced recently and his wife has moved back with her parents, who stay in Kochi.
4. "I keep myself busy at work. Now work is my life, as I have nothing else except for work," rued Kumar, 30, a content writer with a city firm.
"Rise in divorce cases is a worrying statistic. When a couple decides to get divorced, many lives are affected, especially if they have any children,". "There are reasons galore for the rise in divorce cases. Urbanisation and increasing violence against women and financial stability of both husband and wife, to name a few,"
5. "Today's empowered women are refusing to follow the traditional diktats of Indian marriages. Marriage is the biggest form of displacement for any woman as she has to shift from her home (natural habitat) to her husband's home. "It is the wife who is supposed to adjust. But today's financially strong women are not ready to take undue pressure on their individual existence and thus marital discords are bound to increase,".
6. "The couples do not try to work out the marriage as they are confident they can lead a life independently as both are financially stable," he said.
7. Psychiatrists are of the view that with stress and long working hours with little time for each other, couples drift apart and end up being separated.