Published 14:53 IST, October 24th 2024

What Is Serial Monogamy? Actor Bala's Fourth Marriage Brings This Relationship Practice To Light

Malayalam actor Bala married his relative Kokila on Thursday, October 23, two years after ending the marriage with his third wife Dr Elizabeth.

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Actor Bala gets married for fourth, two years after ending marriage with his third wife Dr Elizabeth. actor got married on Thursday, October 23, to his relative Kokila in an intimate ceremony at Kerala 's Pavakulam Temple. wedding ceremony happened at 8:30 AM. Soon after news of his fourth marriage broke, it brought this relationship practice to light, which is called serial monogamy.

What is Serial Monogamy?

According to National Institute of Health when men marry women sequentially, or women marry men sequentially, it is called ‘serial monogamy’. It is done by repeated divorce or remarriage. “This can be done through various means, such as marrying women younger than mselves and replacing divorced spouses with women younger than previous spouse,” per NIH. According to organisation, several studies show both strategies effectively lengn reproductive lifespans of some men relative to those of women.

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(Bala with his new wife Kokila | Image: Instagram)

What are signs of a Serial Monogamist?

1) y struggle with being single. 
2) y want to move quickly into deeper relationships and love-bomb ir partner. 
3) re is no proper closure or communication between ending of one relationship and beginning of next. 
4) y expect deep, premature commitments at early stages of relationships. 
5) y are chronically insecure and exhibit signs of co-dependency. This can burn ir partners out.

Signs of Serial Monogamist in Bala

Bala was first married to a woman named Chandana Sasiva probably before or around 2008. A social media post by a user named Hima Nived Krishna revealed some things about actor's first marriage. Hima shared documents believed to be from 2008, showing Bala's marriage to Chandana and claimed that Chandana suffered abuse during marriage, which eventually led to ir divorce.

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In 2010, he married singer Amrutha Suresh, with whom he has a daughter, Avantika. However, ir marriage turned sour, and y started living separately in 2015, leing to ir divorce in 2019.

(Bala (L), Amrutha (R) | Image: Instagram)

After his divorce from Amrutha, he married Dr. Elizabeth Udayan in 2021. Dr Elizabeth is a surgeon and y reportedly met when Bala consulted her for surgery, possibly during his liver transplant a few years ago. In 2023, couple h begun living apart as revealed by Bala in an interview.

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23:31 IST, October 23rd 2024