To avoid stigma, legal tangles and financial fallout, some couples are choosing emotional separation and leading parallel lives while staying married on paper
In popular imagination, marriages end with shouting matches, accusations hurled across living rooms, custody battles and a courtroom where a judge draws the final line. But many marriages don’t explode or even reach that point. They thin out instead, without drama or even mention of the D-word. As confrontation gives way to apathy, the marriage carries on in rituals, family photographs, and on paper.
The Aroras in Gurugram look like a picture of domestic success: an early-40s couple with two children, in-laws downstairs and luxury cars in the driveway. Inside, though, the marriage runs on a simple understanding. Ritesh earns, Radhika spends, and neither interferes with the other. For six years, this has been their arrangement.
The Aroras in Gurugram look like a picture of domestic success: an early-40s couple with two children, in-laws downstairs and luxury cars in the driveway. Inside, though, the marriage runs on a simple understanding. Ritesh earns, Radhika spends, and neither interferes with the other. For six years, this has been their arrangement.