Is anyone up for a good cry? My mom just told me the most heartbreaking story...

→[More:]The last time she was in Mumbai, my mother got to know about one of our relatives, and the desperate condition they're now in. This particular family is extremely wealthy. The father of the children was the principal of one of the most well reputed schools in the city, and made sure that all of his children attended some of the finest schools. They were all very bright and turned out to be excellent students.

The problem started when they reached the age of marriage and were prohibited to do so by their mother, since she had an abnormal fear of someone taking control of her wealth and her family estate. She would turn away the best of suitors and before soon the children had passed what was considered to be a marriageable age. My mother tells me that they fell into a depression afterwards and are now suffering from various kinds of mental illnesses. The youngest of the children (a girl) was somehow lucky enough to have not met the same fate, however, her story is no less depressing.

She was so desperate to get married that she started a relationship with the guy who lived on the footpath outside her house and is now married to him. He beats her and has become the king of the household (along with his mother who also moved in). The girl doesn't care about what kind of treatment is being meted out to her since she has someone to share her life with.

The mother unfortunately passed away before getting a taste of all of this, so doesn't know that her worst fears have been realized despite her obsessive compulsion to try and protect her wealth at the detriment of her children's well being...

(Seriously, how fucked up is this???)