Four Phases Of Intercaste Marriage

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CHAPTER VI
CHALLENGES
In this chapter the researcher had interviewed total four cases in two different contexts that is husband and wife. This chapter is divided in to four phases. This diagram shows that if you are doing Intercaste marriage then you have to face challenges on different levels. This chapter presents pre-marriage challenges, at the rime of marriage, post marriage and current situation of challenges. In this phases there are also another themes. Researcher tried to write each and every challenges. According to Erik Erickson’s psychosocial development theory “Life is a series of lessons and challenges which help us to grow”.
Diagrammatic Representation of this chapter:

PHASE I
CHALLENGES AT PRE-MARRIAGE PHASE:
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In the context of wife, girls have some common expectations from self that after marriage she will do all household work, will take care of all family members, she will look her family as an ideal family means there is no issues or problems in family if problem will come out then maturely will solve etc. etc. expectation has from self. In the context of husband, boy he always thinks that he has to work and have to earn money for fulfilling’s the needs of family members. Being as an ideal partner he thinks he will keep always happy to his life partner.
Respondents defined love: Almost all respondents explained their thinking about love. Love is divine feeling, feeling of happiness, liking company of particular person, some respondents defined love is an mutual understanding, liking thinking style of each other, Love is unconditional in good and bad times, strong feeling of togetherness towards each other. “According to Robert Stenberg’s triangular theory of love”, love has three different compartments: intimacy is a form in which two people share confidences and various details of their personal lives’, e.g. …show more content…

Couples reported that they are still struggling with their parental/familial opposition but there was no any impact on their personal married life. Couples interviews reveals that slowly slowly both families started contacting each other. Couples also had tried and still trying to get contact with each other. According to Intercaste marriage and Indian society in the Novels of Chetan Bhagat, “Love marriages around the world are simple. Boy loves girl, girl loves boy. They get married. But in India, there are a few more step. Girl loves boy, boy loves girl. The boy’s family has to love the girl. The girl’s family has to love the boy. The girl’s family has to love the boy’s family and boy’s family has to love the girl’s family. Couples reported that they were fully satisfied with the decision of marriage and they are too confident that their family will accept them. Interviews of couples reveals that couples don’t have any regret or shame on their decision of Intercaste marriage. Couples said that they got satisfaction and confidence that youth can also take a decision of their life not only family. Interviews that couples feels that they got their soul mate in their partner as a life partner. In this situation respondents said that Intercaste marriage is a component of transforming/changing the society and every human being have to

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