The person whom I have always looked upon and who is my inspiration is an aunt in my neighborhood back in my hometown. She is a single mother raising her two children and is the best example of how strong a women can be. I would like to share her story with you all..
SHE was the youngest girl among the four siblings. So she was always pampered and loved the most. As a child and a teenager, she was extremely beautiful, talented in all aspects and very good academically.She always dreamed about being happily married and living a dreamy life with her family. She was married after her college and had two lovely children. She was living her dreamy married life but only to our eyes..
“Now also it's hard for me to understand why she lied about her dreamy life..”
It was during the marriage of her cousin that we suspected something was wrong. The marriage preparations were going on full speed And the family members had arrived. Everyone looked happy from the outside but the truth was different. All were worried to the core of their hearts because aunt had not come to the marriage of her favorite brother. No one was able to get in contact with her or her husband for over a month now. When asked to her in-laws they were also clueless about their whereabouts.

“When ever we talk to nani (aunt’s mother) about those days, she still gets speechless and her eyes become moist...”
The marriage ceremony ended. The bride came home and slowly a year passed but there was no news about the families little princess.

One day a call came to the elder son of that family from an unknown number. It was aunt and she was crying. Both the brothers went there immediately and brought their little sister home.She had changed a lot. It was clear just by one look at her that she have suffered a lot and was in very much pain. Even her children looked like they are about to die.

For days she didn't said anything but slowly she calmed down and stated opening up (the family's love was the miracle that helped her relax and get a hold of herself). Then she told everyone about her so called happy married life and it was devastating….

Everything was going fine with the marriage until they had their first child, a boy and they moved to another city, just the 3 of them, for a better job and better lifestyle. There her husband started drinking a lot and now and then he would slap aunt if she tried to stop him. This continued for years. The drinking increased and so did the violence. They had their second child, a girl somewhere during those years.The family moved to a new place due to work and things started getting worse. A time came when her husband stopped going to work. He would just drink and go to places that are, let's just say, not appropriate to go. The family was suffering a lot. There was no money for school, rent and even food. 

So aunt started working as a primary teacher in a nearby school. But all the money that she earned was snatched away by her husband and again he would spend them on alcohol and for his entertainment. Like this things kept getting worse. He even stopped her from going to work. He would beat her with anything he could get a hold on, in front of the children. The children were growing up but the poor souls could not even go to school. The husband had cut all the contacts from friends and families and didn't let aunt and the children out of the house.
But one day somehow, aunt ran away from house and called my uncle from a STD booth….
“Now when I ask her, why she never told the truth in starting only, she says that it was because of the children.. her husband blackmailed her that he would HARM them…”
Now after many years, Aunt has given divorce to that man and now she lives her life independently. She is back to her confident self. She teaches in a school during day time and in the evening she works as a beautician. Her elder son is in high school now and aims to become a doctor. The cute daughter is in 4th standard and as for her dreams, it's a new one every other day.

"When asked why she didn't remarried, beautiful as she was, she says that her dream about a happy married life has now changed to a new dream of seeing both her children happy and successful in their lives…”
She no longer looks for a knight, now she looks for a sword.