I started trading while on maternity leave because I wanted to contribute financially from home. At first it was delivery stocks like Tata Motors and SBI, but slowly I moved into intraday and then options. Within eight months, I had lost ₹9 lakh from savings my husband thought were still in our joint emergency fund.
When I finally confessed, he sat silently for almost an hour. I thought our marriage was over. He only said, "The loss is serious, but hiding it was worse." We spent the next two years rebuilding both the savings and the trust.