A woman wakes up in the middle of the night and shouts “Run, my husband’s home”. The guy jumps out of the bed and runs towards the window. Then he realizes that the woman is actually his wife.
Who is more wrong here? This is an extremely interesting game-theoretic example of being guilty, knowing about someone else’s guilt; and a person’s reaction thereof.
1) Was the lady wrong?
2) Or was it the guy?
3) Does one have a greater right to confront or accuse the other?
4) Should they go back to bed and pretend nothing happened?
What do you think? Let me give you another example of option 4.
Saw this short movie the other day. I absolutely loved the plot. The plot goes like this: Girl loves Boyfriend. Girl is made to marry Husband. Now, while Husband loves her, Girl still continues seeing Boyfriend. In course of time, Doctors tell Husband he is impotent but possibly his chauvinist pride makes him hide it from his wife. One night Girl breaks up with Boyfriend. She goes back to her Husband. All is good.
Few weeks later, she informs her Husband she’s pregnant. Husband hides his shock and does it rather well. Three years later when the kid is grown up and it’s a happy family, the Girl stumbles upon Husband’s medical report saying he is impotent. She cries and tells him about it. Husband says he knew it all along. They both accept it. Life goes on.
How practical is number four? What would you do?
2 comments:
welcome to the blogging world,
and its a good post!
guilt..well i think that its something we all learn to live with. There are soooooo many rules and restrictions that we live under that its impossible for anyone to never break any. And every time we do..we add to the guilt weight we carry around. We deny it even to ourselves and that is y often obsess ourselves in finding faults in everyone else...but that too i guess is just too lighten our own load by telling ourselves others are worse. Also i feel that guilt is not specific but absolute, guilt for one thing can translate into defensive behavior abt something completely unrelated.
Also there's a thin line between guilt and regret!
good post adi...waitin for the next
Since am currently in flaky/ light stage.. I would not have married... stayed single.. I also realise there are reasons why contraceptives were invented... maybe the girl needed to be introduced to the idea.
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