Women who have experienced domestic violence or abuse are at a significantly higher risk of experiencing a range of mental health conditions including post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD), depression, anxiety, substance abuse, and thoughts of suicide. The accruing data reveal strengthening associations between domestic violence on the mental health of women. In India as per National Family Health Survey (NHFS) rounds 4 and 5, it hardly seems larger changes (earlier it was 30% and it reduces to 29.3% respectively) of women have experienced physical violence since the age of 15 years. In fact, during the pandemic, the jobs of women were lost, and they were overburdened with care work at home and lacked support. Families were in a distressful conditions and use of alcohol has increased which trickled down on women in terms of violence. Thus, the evidence shows an increasing case of domestic violence. The increase has pushed the SDGs further and thus, the paper attempts to evaluate the association of alcoholism controlling the nature of husband’s and domestic violence further it also explores the awareness level and attitude (coping) in dealing the violence. Further the paper also discusses the impact of violence and alcoholism on achieving the SDGs. The evidence will also be used to examine how the forces circumstances like COVID have affected violence. For this paper NFHS 5 (2019–21) data will be used further to understand the impact of COVID qualitative data collected from men and women in rural and urban slum sites in four cities of India. (Delhi, Hyderabad, Jaipur and Lucknow) thus the research adopted a mixed methods approach.