First Aftab Poonawala and now Sahil Gehlot, why do women always miss out on the red flags?

Quickly writing this -

This case is very different from regular cases of girls falling for narcissistic men.

Many women have a very messed up idea of how they should be treated in a relationship because their parents or the family they grew up in were dysfunctional. They never got to see a healthy relationship at home so they don’t know what is the benchmark for a decent respectful relationship . Girls like these think that abuse is a part of a woman’s life and this is how it is for everyone in their state or caste or sub-caste or religion.

-Many women come from families where their parents and male relatives are abusive in every which way - emotionally, physically and sexually . If you have spent enough time on 2X, you would have realised how many women would pitch with their own childhood horror stories of abuse every time the topic of abuse comes up: So a lot of these women they grow up to believe this is how life is and this is the fate for every woman. You will be surprised how such thinking transcends every economic class.

  • Sometimes, there is no open abuse but the parents are shockingly conservative and strict. They don’t let their girls go anywhere, talk to anyone, don’t sit them down and talk about security issues or why they had to take a decision that may have seemed strict but had an underlying social issue. Nothing. There is no communication. The fathers are generally aloof and all the requests go through the mother who doesn’t know better - The mother herself married anywhere between the ages 18-21 and knows little of the outside world. So the girls don’t get any guidance from parents.
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