Pakistani women are often expected to keep their feelings hidden deep inside and have certain roles to play in a household which people expect to be restricted to the kitchen.
Truth is a woman is more than that, she is a person with feelings, someone who has her own thoughts, wishes, dreams, and most importantly her rights.
However, a Twitter thread has opened a discussion about how Pakistani women are unable to express their thoughts, even with their husbands. One example given in the tweet was of a woman who shared that she has not shared the same bed with her better half for 22 years.
Many other women poured in with similar stories of how they and their husbands, or couples around them have lost their intimacy and are facing other domestic issues.
The other day an anonymous post on Soul Sisters Pakistan about lack of intimacy in a marriage by someone who hadn’t slept in the same bed with her husband for the last 22 years – had a domino effect.
Hundreds of posts poured in. Thousands of women were in similar marriages (1/3)— Kanwal Ahmed (@kanwalful) April 8, 2023
This started a conversation on Twitter with others adding on to this.
Pakistani Women & Men Open Up on Twitter
Here’s what social media thinks:
‘A similar rather same case in my family. That woman says her husband never sleep in her bedroom for the last 26 years.
They have kids and the kids are not on good terms with the father though he daily comes to stay/sleep at that house. She’s soo lonely. I always pity her. She is old now’ writes Nadia Syed.
Elon Trump shares ‘Intimacy is seen as an act, not as a bond that has a purpose. Some make it worse by reinforcing misleading take on intimacy between spouses. A glue that brings two people closest to each other to form a tight bond of mutual understanding & respect for a rewarding relationship.’
