Marriage means togetherness, not independence: SC

The Supreme Court Thursday said it was “impossible” that in a continuing marriage a husband or a wife could say they want to be independent of their partner.

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If anybody wanted to be independent, they ought not enter matrimony, a bench of Justices B V Nagarathna and R Mahadevan cautioned.

The bench added, “We are very clear. No husband or wife can say I want to be independent of the other spouse while our marriage is continuing. That is impossible. Marriage means what, coming together of two souls, persons. How can you be independent?”

The top court was hearing a case of an estranged couple with two minor children. “If they (couple) come together, we will be happy because the children are very young. Let them not stare at a broken home. What is their fault that they should have a broken home,” the bench said.