The daughter-in-law is expected to merge into the groom's family culture completely, while the groom's family remains remarkably untouched by the concept of adjustment. Apparently, "two families becoming one" often translates into "one family continuing exactly as before while the other family politely disappears." And perhaps the next time someone says, "In our family, this doesn't happen," the real question should be: Why?

Women’s mental health is not a “soft issue.” It is structural. It is a societal mirror and right now, that mirror reflects something deeply uncomfortable: we have normalized women’s silent suffering. For generations, women have been taught to endure, to adjust, to prioritise everyone else’s needs before their own. Somewhere between being a daughter, wife, daughter-in-law, mother, and professional, a woman’s emotional world is pushed to the margins, not because it is unimpor