Acharya Prashant explains that if you ask any ordinary man why he marries, it is not to do respectable work. He does all those things in marriage that if he were to do without marriage, you would call him a disgraceful, lewd scoundrel. You expose your most disgraceful form to your wife. While the rest of the world may have the misconception that you are a respectable man, your wife can have no such illusion. She has seen your pure animal form, which neither your mother, father, nor friends have seen. The brutality that the women in our lives, our sexual partners, see, is not seen by anyone else. And after all this, the man wants respect. Has any husband ever received respect from his wife? She also says, 'You have taken so much from me, now this last thing, don't ask for it, I will not give it.' You show her every kind of brutality, every kind of pettiness. Our most distorted, grotesque, and despicable form is revealed before the wife. What do you want to stand before her as? A recipient of the Bharat Ratna? A sage? An hour ago, she saw you in your demonic incarnation. How will she respect you? Lust is one of our deepest instincts, and the deeper the instinct, the more rot it will have. And before whom it is displayed and revealed, how will that person respect you? Therefore, from your wife, you can get affection, you can get service, you can get security, but you will not get respect. Its foundation was not laid on respect; its foundation was laid on lust. How can you expect respect from something that was not created with respect at its center or as its goal? Then, arrangements were made to forcibly take respect from the woman. She was told things like, 'Respect the husband in this way and that way, don't even take his name.' Even God's name can be taken, but the name of this scoundrel, 'Pintu's father,' cannot be taken. The root of the problem is ignorance of oneself. Who am I? Who is this wife with whom I have been living for 5, 10, or 25 years? What is our relationship? Ponder these subjects seriously. From this seriousness, along with self-knowledge, a little love will arise. After that, the relationship between a man and a woman will no longer be one of animality. After that, two people will be able to talk and behave with each other like human beings.