Friday, November 30, 2007

Life With Brother's Wife

Now the guy and the lady are together. She is wife of her own brother. When I heard first time, i was in shock as usual. But this is life.

Both brothers migrated to Canada and were in the same apartment. Even after they married, both families shared the apartment. One day elder brother on his way to work, took his brother's wife to drop her at the school. Unfortunately the car got into accident and both died one after another.

Now younger brother is like a security guard to his brother's wife. She is like a cook to her cousin. No other relative in Canda for this girl.

Will they continue without a bond? Why don't they marry?

3 comments:

pavalamani pragasam said...

They should- for all practical & emotional reasons. The same loss, the same trauma, more closely related to each other than anyone else. From the times of Mahabaratha to the present times in parts of India there is nothing shameful or unacceptable in such a relationship.

In my close relative's family 2 brother's families travelled with parents and more relatives in a van to a temple city. On their return the van met with an accident in which elder brother's wife & only girl child died. The younger brother also died survived by wife & 2 kids. After a few months it was unanimously decided by the elders that the elder brother marry his brother's widow.

It all went well in the beginning but later the pair showed signs of irreparable discordance & incompatibility. They have legal recognition for all practical purposes like social acceptance, inheritance etc. But the marriage in their case was a failure. My personal deduction is our Tamilian psyche is yet to come to terms with practical wisdom of our times.

Kumar said...

That is a very good lesson.

Anonymous said...

Good words.