Navigating Vulnerability and Seeking Justice

The Baby of the House, Alone at Last

Shruthi was the youngest by sixteen years, sheltered and doted on all her life, with little exposure to the world outside her all-girls schooling. At 28, thriving in her career, she met a charming but troubling colleague — and then lost her sister and her father in close succession. Grief-stricken, she married him. The marriage brought emotional and physical abuse from a husband with a drinking problem and a volatile temper; her in-laws were sympathetic but powerless to help, her baby was born underweight, and two lawyers in a row failed to move her divorce forward, leaving her trust in the legal system badly shaken.

How Shakti Public Charitable Trust Helped

When Shruthi finally told her story to Shakti Public Charitable Trust, she broke down for the first time in four years — the counselling gave her a safe place to feel it. Her legal options were laid out honestly: real timelines, real costs, and the fact that a quick resolution was unlikely. Support continued alongside that honesty, so she could decide what came next on her own terms.

Her Own Next Step

Shruthi ultimately chose to pursue a faster divorce elsewhere. It wasn't the outcome hoped for, but it was her choice to make — and it's respected as one.

Names and personal details have been changed to protect the identities involved.

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