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A month after Masrat (real identity withheld) went to her parent’s home – having been beaten up by her husband after confronting him over a suspected affair with his own cousin – Masrat’s husband returned to see her, to have sex. Masrat had spent nearly a year in a toxic marriage that made her feel “as if I was his maid”. She was spoken to only when she was required to carry out a household chore. When she had overstepped the boundary set by her husband, he told her “to either adjust or get divorced”. The choice would have been simple if Kashmiri society had been supportive of women walking ou…