Hello doctor, I am 26 years old and my husband is 31 years. He is a professor, and I am home maker. We are married for 3 years and is having a kid of 2 year. From the day 1 of my marriage I have went through mental harassment from my in laws, and my husband has a tendency of physically abusing me around trivial issues. Although we had an arrange marriage where I belong from an affluent family and my husband belongs to a lower middle class family. With time I gradually found that due to difference in our background and the way of our upbringing we have developed different temperament and there lies our conflict, although I have tried my level best to adjust into their lower middle class parameters but according to them I have failed and could not adjust with them. Since 2 years I am staying with my husband at Shillong due to his profession. But with time our relationship is worsening day by day. Moreover physical abuse have become a more or less regular habit for him. Where I and my kid are equally suffering due to this. My husband describes his action of physical abuse as "as he is not capable of controlling me" But I think problem lies somewhere else. He is a nice person outside with his friend and family. But when it comes to us we does not lie in his priority .And hence I need a consultation with you. I don't want my marriage to be broken since my kid loves his father and it would hurt her to be apart from his father. Moreover according to me every child deserves a love and care of both the parents for a healthy development. I want to save my marriage and maintain an ideal relationship with my husband. I want to be loved and cared. Hence I want your consultation in Shillong. I would like to book an appointment and bring my husband for counselling session.
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I hope you are aware I don't stay in Shillong but in Bangalore. You seem to know the problem pretty well and I like that you want to save the marriage. It is quite clear that there are compatibility issues of the difference in the socio-economic backgrounds. If you want to live together, you must both learn to adjust. There will be greater demand on adjustability due to he differences. Now while I agree that a child needs both parents for an ideal home, but if she is witness to abuse, then you are doing her no justice or helping her. She will be very angry with you for doing nothing effective. You cannot live in abuse for your sake too. You must both go for marital counseling and if he doesn't then you may have to resort to some leverage: threatening to go to the cops, or threatening to report to the college authorities, etc. If you remain passive, you are actually supporting his abuse and your victim position and this will only increase over time.
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