Marriage in India is still seen as one of life’s biggest milestones. It is celebrated as companionship, family, belonging, and stability. But for many women, marriage also becomes the point where love starts getting measured through sacrifice. Not sacrifice freely chosen, but sacrifice expected, repeated, and normalized.
This is not a story of men versus women. Nor is it a dismissal of family values or tradition. Every marriage needs patience, compromise, and maturity from both people. But the problem begins when compromise becomes gendered, when the burden of keeping the marriage stable quietly falls more on the woman than on the relationship itself.
