“Think before you have an affair, if she is a girl or a ‘beeped word!” – A statement made by someone I know. He has just had a breakup from a 2+ year long relationship, he is 24.
“She makes those statements and I am unable to breakup with her, it has become so tiring” – he is trying for a breakup from a 3+ year relationship, she cheated on him, he is 23 and so is she.
“She wants to get married but I am not settled in life yet, I let her go” it’s a mutual decision, it was a 5+ year relationship, and he is hurt, he is 24 and she is 25.
“I don’t know if I should be with him anymore or not, it has become a duty and burden in my life”, she is 23, and has been in this relationship for the last 7 years.
Every youngster I meet these days, has a boyfriend / girlfriend, and there is some trauma in their life because of these relationships.
Kids today, fall in love early, try everything out, experiment with relationships, have multiple of them. Kids suffer, don’t they? Is, having relationships at early ages leading to an “emotionally damaged generation”? Is it helping them or harming?
Will it help them learn to be strong what may come? Help them to get a balanced life where emotions do not tangle with practical decisions? Where kids understand themselves well and mature quickly? Are there any benefits of having these many relationships and these many break-ups?
If I am not wrong, during earlier days, falling in love was not common, and the ones who did, fought to get married and continued to have a committed life. There was stability, trust, and a strong foundation to build any relationship. It was healthy.
Today, kids start to have “that one person” when they are 10 or 11 years old. As time passes, many “that one person” happen in their lives. Mental, physical, emotional attachments happen and break.
Will this leave today’s kids unable to have a rock solid relationship that our parents had? Trust becoming a big issue in life? Will it lead to a day where it is all open marriages and any kind of relationship with anyone is accepted?
I see these relationships and trauma harms them, damages them, and troubles them. Jilted lovers killing themselves, their ex-lovers, taking revenge and the number of such cases, supports the fact that they are getting emotionally damaged.
Are we in the making of an “emotionally damaged generation”??
Sowmyashree Gonibeedu
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ನೀವು ಹೇಳಿದ್ದು ನಿಜ.
ನಾವೀಗ ’ಅರೆ ಬೆಂದ’ ಮನಸ್ಸಿನ ಯವ್ವನಿಗರ ಸಂತೆಯಳ್ಲಿದ್ದೇವೇನೋ?
ಒಳ್ಳೆಯ ಬರಹ.
This has already happened in some societies, where relationships change slightly slower than the clothes you wear. They seem to take it as a given now. It is hard to tell what the impact in India will be.
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