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Updated On: 25 June, 2023 07:52 AM IST | Mumbai | Rian Khorana
Mumbai sees sharp rise in crimes against women, with January figures crossing 500. Here’s how counsellors are fighting the wave
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Aili Seghetti with a member of her team at a practice ‘mock date’ session. She conducts these with her clients to prepare them for romantic dates so that they can communicate and process their feelings better, and make the engagement a fulfilling experience minus insecurities
On June 19, Panchasheela Jamadar, a 30-year-old mother of two, was murdered in a moving autorickshaw by her boyfriend, Deepak Borse. Jamadar and Borse had been in a relationship for two years and had known each other before that. And yet, when Borse asked her to marry him, she turned him down, due to which he allegedly slit her throat with a chopper. According to Mumbai Police’s monthly statistics, the city witnessed 591 cases of crimes against women in January, 536 in February, 601 in March and 604 in April.
Mental health and relationship experts concur that rejection of a romantic overture is among the top reasons behind violence by men against women. While Borse’s case is among the extreme ones, authorities record scores of instances of online or in-person harassment of women who have rejected men. “The two classic extreme coping mechanisms after being rejected are resentful aggression towards the person or self harm. Both of these are two sides of the same coin,” says Aili Seghetti, founder of The Intimacy Curator, who conducts mock date sessions to prepare men for actual dates.
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