An unusual love story

I have been reading Uma Trilok’s Amrita Imroz: A Love Story, I came across this sentence by Imroze, “A male can seldom look beyond the physical form of a female. He never tries to reach her soul, even as the woman fulfils all his needs, cooks for him, washes for him, gives birth to his children and so on.” His words caught me by surprise. I was wondering how a man could think so deeply for a woman. He was not married to Amrita. He was in love with her and so did she, but they never said ‘I Love you’ to each other. Yet they understand each other’s love. How could they say those words when every moment of their life was giving witness to the fact that they loved each other in a most civilized way where one does not impose himself/herself on the lover and respect and love his/her self-dependent existence. The above stated sentence seems strange when heard from a man’s mouth. A man can never understand a woman. When she gets married, she leaves everything behind. She leaves her house, her parents, her clothes and in some cases her name. She do everything for her man and what she gets in return…‘my family don’t like your name, lets change it to something else’. Reality is stranger than fiction…one gets to experience it when you see a woman compromising and adjusting day after day to fit into her new family. Yet after spending a couple of years in that house she is considered to be someone from outside. Her parents say, ‘this is no longer your house. Your husband’s house is yours now’. But when she is with her in-laws they say, ‘this is our house and you’ll have to live here in our way’. What an irony, inspite of having two homes, she is homeless. I’ve seen couples who are married for as long as three decades still the husband never said that he loves his wife. But with the younger generation being more broader in their outlook and more independent…what Imroz said could be understood by the GenZ men and a step towards an egalitarian society and ‘love’ ruling the minds!!!