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Talking in the societal tone, daughters are “paraya dhan” in their father’s house. People say that girls do not actually belong to their father’s house, it’s their father’s responsibility to send her to her husband’s house.
Women have never been considered as a human being in this society, they’re always treated like a thing, that belongs to someone other than her parents. She’s the one who’s always being sacrificed for everything, she’s the one to sacrifice for the sake of everything even if she doesn’t belongs to it.
A woman leaves her house to live with a few strangers and then she’s sometimes not even accepted there as well. Where do she actually belong? She sacrifices her everything for the sake of that one man she thinks will support her, love her and respect her throughout his life, but sometimes men do not respect her sacrifices and think of her as her duty. She does it all to make a few bunch of people happy to whom she didn’t even belong to, thinking of it as her duty.
Women and men should be treated equally, when it comes to marriage. I think man and woman both should buy their own house to live in with utter independence, no one should sacrifice alone. Everyone deserves an equal amount of happiness and an equal amount of love and independence.