Nov 18, '09
Keshav lives with his parents, elder sister and her two kids. His elder brother died in a road accident. The sister is separated from her husband. Mother is a housewife and father retired. His father and sister are both quite foul-mouthed, ill-tempered and demanding morons. And, the family is not particularly well to do either. The egoistical sister chooses to burden her parents instead of taking compensation from her husband for her kids' education and upbringing.
Keshav decided to make things a bit better by getting married and finding a companion. Thankfully, Meena got along very well with Keshav's mother and they both found agreeable companionship in each other, an escape from the sister and father. All was well till the sister started troubling Meena also, to a point that Keshav and Meena had to move to another flat after Meena's pregnancy. Meena delivered a baby girl and they were content in their little lives. Till Meena got pregnant for the second time and something got into Meena as she moved to her mother's for delivery.
Meena said she was hurt and resentful because she, and not the sister, was asked to move out. It's the sister, who is working and technically should be the one living separately and the daughter-n-law has more right over the family and the house. And, she thinks they don't want her in the family. Keshav has done everything he can to persuade her to come back especially for their two daughters' sake. For over two years, he had been going there every week sometimes everyday. But Meena wouldn't budge. So, he gave up because he had a lot of other things to worry about anyway.
Unfortunately, Keshav's mother had an accident last year and suffered a paralytic attack, after which she has been bed ridden. Keshav has to work, be at their other flat and make sure that the insane father and sister don't drive his mother to her deathbed with their constant nasty behaviour and screaming. (I believe that she would have recovered if not for her husband and daughter's behaviour).
Last week Meena's younger brother died of cancer, leaving his wife and one year old kid behind. Her elder brother is an invalid and father no more. Now Keshav feels Meena wants to come back since there is no financial security at her home. He says honestly he doesn't want to take her back because she wasn't there when he needed her. She didn't come to be with his mother and didn't even visit her once in the last one and a half years. Moreover, they will still be staying in the second flat. So, now what about the 'they threw me out of the house so, I won't go back'? What about the humiliation he had to go through in front of Meena's family every time he went to persuade her to return? If Meena says for their daughters need a father, well, she didn't think about it all this while... and probably wouldn't have, had her brother not died. If it's only for the financial security, Keshav can provide that without living together.
I know he doesn't want to take her back but he will... for their daughters. He kept saying, 'I don't want to. But I don't know what else to do.' Now it's a moral thing! He is a very good human being, who is always striving to make others comfortable and happy even if it means bending over backwards. So, what do you think he should do?
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