Marriage can be a warm destination, but it is also a challenging journey, especially for women. While society is increasingly modernizing and gender equality is being promoted, reality still shows: women are often the ones who bear more pressure when entering family life. From tangible responsibilities to silent hurt, women not only need to love, but also have to learn to love, both caring, enduring and growing up.
The invisible burden of "family care"
Regardless of the era, the image of a woman controlling the family business is still a cultural standard deeply ingrained in Asian thought. When entering marriage, women not only become wives, but also carry the role of mothers, housewives, and "feeder" of the entire family.
However, as the number of extracurricular jobs increases, women are often expected to come home early, cook, raise children, and clean. This unfair labor assignment causes many women to fall into a state of exhaustion, physical and mental exhaustion.
Relationship conflict: a quiet crack in the wife's heart
Not every marriage is just sweet. difference in thinking, life value, behavior... can easily lead to conflict. But it is worth mentioning that in many cases, women are often the ones who have to give up and sacrifice to keep the family in harmony.
Prolonged silence, ignored pain, and lack of empathy from their partner lead them into negative psychological states such as anxiety, depression, and self-doubting. A wife may smile in front of her husband and children, but inside is a long, empty feeling.
Physical decline - an uncessible but dangerous consequences
Women get married, give birth, become mothers... at each stage of the body, causing great changes. Having to worry too much along with lack of time to rest and take care of yourself can disrupt hormones, leading to a series of problems such as insomnia, headaches, endocrine disorders, neurological weakness, etc.
It is worth mentioning that these injuries do not come immediately but are quiet and prolonged. Many women after the age of 35 fall into a health crisis without a clear cause, while the root comes from the years of silent sacrifice for their family.
Risk of divorce and post-divorce crisis
A noteworthy fact: women are often more proactive in divorcing than men, not because they are easily abandoned, but because they have endured too long.
When divorced, women not only suffer emotional losses, but also suffer financial disadvantages, child custody, housing, and social status. Many people fall into a state of depression, impassment, disorientation, especially when becoming a single mother in a society with many prejudices.
Divorce is not an easy release, but an uncompromising backstage battle for women's endurance, determination and resilience.
Women - not only need love, but need justice
A happy marriage cannot only rely on love at first, but must have sharing responsibility, accompanying, listening and respecting each other. A woman should not be defined as a victim. They need a husband who knows how to accompany them, a husband's family who knows how to respect them, and a society that knows how to protect them when needed.
Only when women are truly understood and shared can they live fully as wives, mothers, and partners without trading themselves in that journey.
