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February 24, 2025 at 9:44 am

Eventually yes, but not before a top private doc in Sobo offered to talk to both our parents and get us married right away (???). If I had stayed in that clinic any longer, she might have taken it upon herself to talk to my parents forcefully. It was insane.

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February 24, 2025 at 9:39 am

Yeah sounds absurd, but I was young and it was scary.

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February 22, 2025 at 3:54 pm

I’ve had a similar experience at a govt hospital in Mumbai. It’s better to see a private doctor. You might find resources on which private doctors will be open to do it without judgment in insta.

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February 16, 2025 at 6:53 pm

I’m not stating an opinion. I am stating that it is within the legal ambit of dowry.

*A demand being made for unequal contribution to the wedding expenses by the groom’s side is within the legal ambit of dowry.*

Is he being demanded to take over wedding expenses? Is there a cultural or traditional expectation placed on him? The guy doesn’t have to if he doesn’t want to? Who’s forcing him to?

Giving dowry is also an offense, albeit giving dowry under pressure and demand? Context matters.

I am not getting married to this family or such a family. I don’t understand why you are raising ad hominem responses. Lol.

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February 16, 2025 at 6:34 pm

The “expectation” that bride’s family has to *solely* bear the expenses for the wedding does make it dowry, and is within the legal ambit.

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February 16, 2025 at 6:19 pm

I guess, that makes those marriages in developed nations also dowry if the woman’s family is bearing the expenses based on the cultural or whatever expectation.

If there is a cultural or traditional expectation that the bride’s side is solely responsible for the wedding expenses and there is an unequal contribution to the wedding expenses, that is a dowry in a different form.

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February 16, 2025 at 5:34 pm

Yes, it is dowry to expect a woman’s family to take the wedding expenses. Especially if the fiancé’s family is not contributing to any other expenses.

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