Dilwale Dulhania Le Jayenge???

The other day my cousins-in-law came home with their cute little daughter - Gudiya. Gudiya’s dad was singing songs to her, the lyrics of which went something like “when will Gudiya be going to the in-laws place?”
Right after a daughter is born the parents start dreding the day when their loved angel will go away to another house to make it her own. In almost all the societies this is the norm.
When I was much younger and people used to talk to me about my wedding I used to say out loud “I will get a ghar-jamai and be at my home, why should the girl always leave her house”!! But alas I moved out to my in-laws after marriage…Since then I have thought about the statements I used to make and how it never seemed a possibility (even though I refuse to admit it). 
Post marriage I have realised that this norm exists in the society because its the woman who are capable of adapting to the changing situations in life. The working woman adapt to the double burden of work and home. The mother adapts to the work load and the kid. The wife adapts to the parents and in-laws. And all this she does with utmost ease as if this is what she has been doing throughout her life!
Men find it extremely difficult to adapt to situations, they cannot feel comfortable at alien situations and take ages to adjust to certain changes.
Probably this is why since ages its the women who are handed out the task of setting up a new world with new people around them.