This paper attempts to look into women’s experiences of sexual coercion and violence within marriage. Ninety-eight out of 115 women answered questions on sexual coercion. Nearly 70 percent of them reported sexual coercion – 21 percent reported physical violence, 14 percent reported anger, while the remaining 32 percent did not provide further details. Husbands turned abusive or threatened to send the women back to their natal family or go to other women. Majority of the women submitted to their husbands’ demand for sex, either out of fear that their husbands would act on these threats or out of a sense of duty that they should serve their husbands. It was also found that more women submitted to their husbands’ demand if their husbands reacted violently. Those who resisted generally did so by threatening to start screaming, “endangering his prestige”, threatening suicide, if forced to have sex, waking up young children who generally sleep with them and reporting false or prolonged menstrual period. Refusal to yield to husband’s coercion is found from relatively younger women, but not before having spent a few years (3 or more) of married life. In the initial stage of their married life, they were helpless. According to them, it was the only way to get the closeness and support of their husbands in their in-laws’ house, which is traditionally known for being difficult and demanding of daughters-in-law. Another observation made in this study is that often women’s resistance to sex, and the resultant sexual violence, starts from their fear of an unwanted pregnancy.