Navigate the complex dynamics of South Asian joint families versus nuclear households. While extended living offers vital emotional support and resilience, balancing communal expectations with personal freedom remains a significant challenge for modern generations.

The concept of ghor jamai, where husbands live with their wife’s family, challenges traditional norms. While older generations resist, younger couples prioritize practicality, convenience, and wellbeing, reshaping marriage dynamics and normalizing this evolving cultural arrangement across South Asia.

When a couple gets married, they are either already in love with their partners, or in the case of an arranged marriage, trying to fall in love. It is felt by many an expert, that this is the time when partners form crucial and lasting bonds with each other and need privacy the most.