Financial independence is non-negotiable for women.

Financial independence is non-negotiable for women.

With countless films, OTT series, and real-life crime stories shown in programs like Crime Patrol, Savdhaan India, and Investigation Discovery, any aware person should understand one hard truth by now: marriage is a gamble. If you are extremely fortunate—blessed with good karma, supportive circumstances, and perhaps favorable destiny—you may find happiness in married life. Otherwise, it can easily turn into a risky and emotionally draining journey.

We also cannot deny that there are families and social environments where values, boundaries, and character are treated casually. Some men and women make themselves emotionally or physically “available” without responsibility—sometimes for fun, sometimes for money, sometimes out of sheer emptiness. Young people often mistake such encounters for harmless flings. They are not harmless. These encounters slowly erode character—and when character is lost, everything meaningful is lost.

If by “everything” one only means money in the bank, then perhaps this loss doesn’t matter. But for people who are educated, thoughtful, and raised in families that nurtured both intellect and ethics, relationships are meant to have depth, dignity, and meaning. What many fail to see is that long before a relationship collapses, character has already been damaged—often by pornography, distorted ideas of pleasure, and association with people of low values. This is where confusion begins: people seek depth but repeatedly end up with character assassins.

The heaviest price is paid by women.

Strong, self-respecting women usually do not fall for shallow flings. But the men in their lives—husbands, and sometimes even sons—may not possess the same strength or values. History, cinema, and society repeatedly show us this. As seen in films like Nishabd, even elderly men can pursue much younger women without shame, exposing a disturbing pattern in male psychology when values are absent. For such men, marriage is merely a social cover; fidelity, responsibility, and the emotional well-being of their children mean very little. Their debauchery inevitably damages the family.

A well-raised woman cannot tolerate such moral decay forever. Eventually, she must stop pretending—often after years of silence forced upon her by social pressure. But if she is not financially independent, she is trapped. She swallows humiliation, anger, and pain in silence, believing she is doing it for her children. What she doesn’t realize is that children grow up. They see. They understand. And they are deeply affected.

Oppressed women often become anxious, irritable, depressed, or emotionally volatile—not because they are weak, but because prolonged injustice breaks the spirit. These emotional wounds are directly passed on to children. Dysfunctional families create emotionally wounded individuals, who then carry those wounds into society and repeat the cycle.

That is why financial independence is not a luxury for women—it is protection, dignity, and freedom.

If you are born into a family that believes in educating the girl child, encourages her to study, grow, and stand on her own feet, then know this: you are already fortunate. You belong to an evolved family—one that understands that a woman who can support herself can also protect her children, her sanity, and her self-respect, no matter what life throws at her.