How does international job migration affect marriages?
Migration affects marriage in various ways. If the husband is abroad, the wife at home waits eagerly for his return. The challenge of fidelity exists for both, but the wife’s fidelity is more stressed. The wife sometimes is maltreated by in-laws and misinformation is communicated to the husband. A husband could then misunderstand his wife and think of leaving her. At other times, the wife is tortured, suffers mentally, and laden with unnecessary restrictions, or treated as a maid. Also, some husbands reportedly have bigamous relations abroad. This arises in the city and its environment. There are also cases when a wife is bigamous, keeping illegal relations with an ex-lover or with others after her marriage, or she fails to adjust to her husband’s home, despite being treated properly. Those abroad tend to have hasty marriages due to abbreviated time, job and visa needs. Proper time to get to know one another is lacking, so the problem arises later on. If a request is not granted or lin
