Wednesday, February 8, 2:50 am
Long Live Live-In Relationship
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Supreme Court of India recently opined that a man and woman living together without marriage cannot be construed as an offence. The issue has invited a lot of debate, especially in the conservative Indian society where such open ways of life are not easily accepted.
But there is no denying in the fact that live-in relationships have been existing in our society since long, and it is only now that such a relationship has been given a legal sanctity. I agree with what has been even observed by the Apex Court, that when two adult people want to live together what is the offence?
It’s hard to digest for many with what I would call rigid views, that if a man and woman are living together without having been married it is not a sin. Marriage is just a ceremony giving you the right to live together and share all the closeness, and live-in is living together without that life-long commitment which comes only after being in the wedlock, though both relations are lived with the same feeling of togetherness.
Some might argue that a marriage binds you more into a lifelong relation, but aren’t marriages also breaking up? Rather living troubled marriages is more painful that living a relation which does not force you into it. You live it because you love it and even a live-in relation can be lifelong and moreover when it comes to making or breaking a relation it has to be one’s personal choice, and not what the society wants or accepts.
What really matters is that a relationship has to work and no ceremony can make it work. It’s the understanding and compatibility that matters. Though it might be a new beginning for Indians, but in many countries there are rights of live-in partners and soon we too will have to accept this reality with dignity.
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Men and women, particularly women, enjoy more freedom in the tribal society. A woman can marry or remarry any number of times and walk out of a relationship if she is not comfortable. It is only in the so called civilised Hindu society that people, again particularly women, are forced to moral policing and they enjoy less freedom as compared to a woman in the tribal society. Each arrangement has its own merits and demerits. But we cannot take the clock back, and we should, now, accept that a person should have the right to walk out of a relationship if he or she is not comfortable with it. A marriage should exist not by default, but by choice. Amen !!!
Agreed that the whole ball game of a live-in-relationship seems very tempting, but the consequences can be irritating. A lack of commitment in the real sense and a dangerous level of liberty loom over the relationship to topple it over anytime.
I don’t see anything wrong in this sort of relationship as long as both the parties involved are satisfied and happy…….
I think every thing is fine between two CONSENTING adults
The Apex Court has rightly given its verdict. There is nothing wrong in live-in-relationships unless it remains in limits.
I AGREE WITH U.
Live-in, I could be wrong with the spellings, is like being together as in a cafe till the time the coffee is hot and boiling, and drinkable. To digress for a moment, the Supreme Court bench has purely given a judgement on the basis of legal books. Where one ends up in and after a Live-in is a question of morality. So coming back to the point, do we want the hot coffee or the coffee-maker?