Ending a 'live-in' Isn't legally tricky

Supreme Court has announced that breaking up a live-in relationship is not a crime. Well, would you evah! Just as well the two justices leant back, satisfied at having clarified what most of us kind of know since the invention of sulking, but clarified. Just in case. To reiterate, of course we believe the court is right. Ending a live-in relationship is no more criminal than ending that other more socially-accepted live-in arrangement called marriage. Neither is a fling illegal, even as it may get the perp thrown out 'non-consensually'.

Unless of course you're a woman in Biblical times, where adultery was punishable by getting stoned - with the non-cannabis variety. Or under Taliban, where lashes are handed out like a night out at a BDSM parlour. In those jurisdictions, rom-trag (as opposed to romcom) is considered serious drama-cultural trauma. But here, in our modern giant khap-republic, the law has once again confirmed that causing heartbreak is not a penal offence. Once in a while, even such an obvious matter needs to be said aloud. Lest we forget that freedom includes the right to walk away. Love may be binding, but the law is not your therapist. As for what you may end up having to worry about after you've upped and left: the fury of a woman or man scorned. Or the collective fury of the woman's brothers out for you on bikes.