Originally posted by: Deltablues
Her body, her choice. A husband doesn't own a wife and definitely isn't the victim when it is her body and health that is harmed. Her suffering if and while caused by her own actions doesn't make him a victim.
He had been taking anxiety medicines so she couldn't exercise her consent? So had none of these happened and she just wanted to leave because of incompatibility, she couldn't have sought a divorce because he took anxiety pills?
Let alone the fact that he did choose to divorce her while she was traumatised, and she shouldn't have left him because he took anxiety pills?
After he divorced her and she ceased to have any conjugal, social, or legal relationship with him, she did not owe him anything. Whether she went to Greece or the Goenkas, that wasn't his business. That's how divorces work.
Ok, so you are just using words like "consent" and "divorce" without understanding what they mean. Yes, and a woman has full rights to her own body. There has never, not once, been a consent violation here. The idea is what we owe to each other (lol, got to quote Locke with no connection).
A wife does not owe her husband her body, and esp a mother can choose to do whatever with her pregnancy, whether it is to abort or not. But...if your happiness and health are tied to someone else, like your family, for example, then they expect you to be careful with it. That is all the expectation that was there. She was supposed to be careful, and she wasn't. That is it. The situation would be different if Abhi wanted kids and forced her into a pregnancy, but he didn't. He clearly showed that he cared for her more than for being a father. But once they decided to keep the pregnancy, built up dreams on it, etc, she does owe him that much. To be careful, to keep herself and her babies safe.
Also, even after divorce, women do owe their exes right to visit and know about their children together. Its a recognized right for both the father and the kid.
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