I met my husband in 2007 while working in Hyderabad. We became good friends and over time, our friendship turned into love. After three years together, we got married in 2010. It was a love marriage, but my brother never liked him and always thought I deserved someone better. Still, I followed my heart. Soon after the wedding, we moved to the United States for better job opportunities and a fresh start.
Life there was calm and steady. We had our first child in 2012 and our second in 2015. Taking care of two young children while managing work and home was very hard for me. I started feeling tired and emotionally drained. I missed my parents and felt that moving back to India would make things easier. In 2018, I convinced my husband to return to India, even though he was unsure.
He agreed just to make me happy. After we returned, things slowly started to go wrong. My family, especially my father who had some political influence, and my brother who had a well paying job, began interfering in our personal matters. They never liked my husband and looked for every small reason to complain. One day, after a small argument between me and my husband, they told me to file dowry and domestic violence cases against him.
I was mentally exhausted and made the mistake of listening to them. That decision destroyed everything. The case continued for four years, and in 2022, we finally settled it. My husband walked away without fighting much, and I stayed back in India with the children. Now the same family who pushed me into that decision treats me like a burden.
My parents are cold toward me, and my brother’s wife openly disrespects me at home. I recently thought of reaching out to my husband to say sorry and try to fix things. But I found out he had moved on and remarried. That moment crushed me. I am 37 now, living in India with my two kids who are 13 and 10. I often think about how good our life was in the United States.
I had a loving husband, a peaceful home, and a complete family. I lost it all because I let others control my decisions and never stood up for the truth. Now I live with guilt and regret every single day, wishing I could go back and do things differently.
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