Tragic End To A Beautiful Love Story

Amulet · Jul 16, 2019

SGBV said: ↑

Brilliant. That was the first thing that came to my mind too.
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I guess, this is one such incident, though I strongly believe there is much more left than what she has shared with us.
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Hahahahah....
First person tear-jerkers are usually treated deferentially on the forum, because the forum etiquette demands that.
Third party or hearsay tear-jerkers should be taken with a lot of spices, not just salt. From what you say here, it seems like you are a social worker who could be used to a lot of inventive tear-jerker narratives. You probably knew that it was fiction that Lavanya ( I presumed it was a made-up name) sold you. We girls can spin an imaginative tale like no one.
Imagine a scenario (Engineers among us call these "boundary conditions" where variables take on different values when they cross the boundaries of presumptions) where Lavanya that you met was never married, and recast that story. The reason that Manoj never looked for her over the last two years is that there was no Manoj. That could be fun!

SGBV · Jul 16, 2019

Amulet said: ↑

Hahahahah....
First person tear-jerkers are usually treated deferentially on the forum, because the forum etiquette demands that.
Third party or hearsay tear-jerkers should be taken with a lot of spices, not just salt. From what you say here, it seems like you are a social worker who could be used to a lot of inventive tear-jerker narratives. You probably knew that it was fiction that Lavanya ( I presumed it was a made-up name) sold you. We girls can spin an imaginative tale like no one.
Imagine a scenario (Engineers among us call these "boundary conditions" where variables take on different values when they cross the boundaries of presumptions) where Lavanya that you met was never married, and recast that story. The reason that Manoj never looked for her over the last two years is that there was no Manoj. That could be fun!
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I was like you when I joined UN a decade back. Laughing at tear stories of others, and making fun of their foolish decisions later with colleagues.
I had ready made solutions for almost all their problems, so I didn't know why they were in trouble.
But education and training on psychology changed me. I was able to stand on other persons shoes to understand that their lens that they used to see the world is very different from ours.
Besides, I've learnt something called "empathy", which is very different from being "intelligent"

For ex: An Engineer girl died - committed suicide, because her on-line (facebook) lover disappeared abruptly. Possibly he must have deactivated that fake account, or moved out. Clearly it was a cheating case.
What would you and I do had that happened to us?
Well, I would ignore him... learn a lesson. Perhaps, you would lodge a complain as cyber crime if anything serious got involved.
Neither of us would commit suicide, right? Despite of being a software engineer, the girl might have got enough understanding of how to use on-line platforms and social media in the first place. She might have got enough knowledge about the people who possibly could portray a great pic through fake ID and all.
Yet, this woman chose to end her precious life for this. Why?
It is because she is not you and me. She is that weakest, fragile woman with so much going on inside for long.
She died not just because of this incident. But her insecurities and complex were a result of her prolonged disappointments in life.
So, you can't treat everything based on the face value. There is many more to that...

Just saying......

Amulet · Jul 16, 2019

SGBV said: ↑

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So, you can't treat everything based on the face value. There is many more to that...
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That is the way it is... That is exactly why I recommended:

Amulet said: ↑

....The reason that Manoj never looked for her over the last two years is that there was no Manoj. That could be fun!
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Thyagarajan · Jul 16, 2019

SGBV said: ↑

Lavanya

I happened to meet this young woman in one of the orphanage, which I used to visit frequently on special days. She joined there as an orphan, as well as she offered to serve there as a care-taker/mother figure to those orphan kids.
The system there is amazing. They group kids of different ages from infant to 18 yrs old into families (5-6 kids) and appoint a care-taker for each group. These kids and their care-taker will be given a home (like cabana) with essential facilities. All of them are orphans, hence they make a family within. The kids call each other as "anna, Thambi, Akka.. and they all call their caretaker as Amma". And more importantly, they mean it.
They go to School, and live as normal as other kids. Their home is managed by foreign funds.

Lavanya didn't look like a poor orphan, though she claimed so. Her body language, attitude and style portrayed a different story than what she officially shared. Nevertheless, she was a very nice, caring and lovely woman. That bonded us very quickly on a friendly manner.

After a lot of bonding in the past 2 years, she opened up everything about her life, which shattered me to the core.
I clearly know that, she is wrong... But I dont know how to help her.

Here goes her story:-

Lavanya was the eldest DD of a middle class railway employee. She lost her mom when she was 4 yrs old; hence her dad remarried immediately. Her step mom was cruel, and her cruelty worsened when she had her own kids. Lavanya was cornered, punished, and isolated in her own home with no love or care. Though her dad knew all this, he didn't want to risk his marriage life for his DD.
Lavanya beard all these out of no choice till she joined workforce in a hospital as a nurse.

She showered all her love and care to the patients at the hospital, and that was the only solace in her otherwise dim life.

One fateful day when Lavanya was riding in a bike with her colleague, who offered a lift to the bus station that rainy evening, the duo met with an accident.
Though both of them were rushed to the hospital, there was no one to claim responsibility of fatally injured Lavanya initially. But apparently her dad and sisters took turn in taking care of her till she almost regained consciousness.
Lavanya was declared paralyzed below her waist level, which scared her spineless dad too. He requested the hospital to send her to any orphanage directly from the hospital citing his practical problems with his second wife.

That's when Manoj entered the scene and claimed complete responsibility of Lavanya to take her home.
She was still in half conscious and didn't know what was going on.

In the next few days, they have shifted her to a luxury home with a full time care-taker. Manoj paid extensive attention about her well-being, and directed his maids to consider her as utmost priority.
Nevertheless, the maid left her abruptly one fine day to attend her family emergency; thus Lavanya was left alone in her cozy bed for a day.
She did bleed profusely, as she got her first period after that fateful accident, and the whole bed got drenched in blood eventually. There was no one to feed her or attend to her needs, as Manoj wasn't home that day it seems.
She eventually became unconscious, and got revived latter that day when Manoj cleaned her up with bare hands.
She was too weak to react, though she was completely uncomfortable to lie half naked on a period day before an unknown young man at his home. That too as paralyzed and helpless.
Tears rolled down from her eyes, when she cried in pain both inside and out thinking about her pathetic condition.
Manoj quickly reacted to it by tying a mangalsutra (He later mentioned it was his mother's) and asked her not to cry anymore as she is being helpless only before her husband, and it is alright.

Then only she learnt the fact that Manoj was one of her patient, who had so much respect for the way how she cared him when he was sick at the hospital.
He introduced himself as a single man with no baggage, and later she realized from the care-takers that Manoj is a million-er with a very successful business in town.

Lavanya received physiotherapy treatments and learned to walk again on her own. She soon started to take care of the home together with those maids.
Manoj started feeling some liveliness in his home now after the death of his mom a decade back. He sincerely loved Lavanya and wanted her to be in his life. she too reciprocated it.

The couple got married legally, and started a joyous marriage life together. Their happiness lasted for 4 years, and they were inseparable during then.
However, they too had problems in their life in the name of childlessness. Lavanya was insulted in family gathering as many relatives from Manoj's side didn't like their union anyways.
Some of their business enemy's unnecessarily questioned Manoj's masculinity during arguments, which hurt Lavanya to the core.
Though she wanted to address this problem with a medical professional for a long time, Manoj didn't.

So, this time Lavanya met with a Dr on her own, and genuinely tried to fix their problem. For her surprise, the Dr had an utmost shocking news about her fertility. It was revealed that Lavanya has a problem in her uterus, that a part of her womb has been surgically removed. Therefore, she could never become pregnant. She also learned that she could not please her H sexually after a while due to hormonal imbalance due to the same, which she has started experiencing already.

Shattered Lavanya feared about her life, and thought a lot before revealing the news to her husband. But, surprisingly he took it easily as he apparently knew all this before their marriage itself. In fact, it was him who signed off for the surgery to save Lavanya following that accident, that connected them earlier. He knew Lavanya could never bear his child; nevertheless he wanted her to become his wife anyway.

Puzzled Lavanya didn't want this to ruin her husband's life; thus pushed him to remarry someone else, and create a family. But he denied and wanted Lavanya as his wife and everything for life. This went on and on for sometimes between them, and disturbed the happiness in their marriage.

Poor lady, she was stuck with extreme guilt and self pity that she doesn't wanna ruin her husband's life anymore by being with him. So, she left him abruptly without any notice to become a care taker at this orphanage now.
She is here for nearly 2 years now, and no one from her home has found her yet.

After hearing her story, I was moved a lot and I could not resist the urge to dig further about her husband. I am very much sure that her name and whatever the identical info she has shared about her H were untrue. But I could still dig through if I want to.

But not sure whether it is ethical or not..... Confused...
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Heart wrenching a bit good vivid narration reminding the reader a scene of D H Lawrence "Lady Chatterley's Lover".
I enjoyed reading it.
Story in the following link comes to mind.
Amrutha, Anjali & Ayyappan - Could Almighty Plan Their Marital Status?

Thanks & regards.

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