Wednesday, March 9, 2011

Life After Marriage

Many of my friends and cousins ask me as how is life after marriage. To be very frank, I'm not even sure as what is the right way any married couple should feel after marriage.

For me, I feel comfortable and glad that the wedding was finally over. The wedding was planned very fast and thank God everything went smoothly. I am glad that people who mean a lot to me took out the time to attend the wedding.

We had lots of help from friends and we persevere through the ups and downs of planning.

It is not easy to handle the pre-wedding tasks like doing the shopping and everything when you stay away from the family and need to ask friends for suggestions. Every Sunday before I went to my hometown was hectic.

But after the wedding, at this stage, I feel really comfortable with the shared life I had with my husband. As I am still living in Delhi and he in some other city, things have not changed much for me. But still there are many things that I can feel have been changed. Even though we are living in different cities, yet we still carry on to be who we are and continue to do what we do.

There are definitely some shared roles and responsibilities like calling up our parents on regular basis, making call to each other and asking about the day’s plan or what you have eaten and the list goes on.

For me, during whatever time we have spent together, I learned about respect and communication and learned to speak and express ourselves. Even now we do our best to share what our thoughts and feelings are.

What I meant when I say respect is in the sense that his working hours are different and I need to accept that.

Communication in the sense we share with each other our thoughts, problems and challenges so we can better understand each other and learn to cope together and plan a better future.

When we share, we become closer too. Two heads are definitely better than one, aren't they?

Even after almost being married for one month, I don’t have the answer as how is life after marriage. I will say it’s beautiful, romantic, and peaceful and so on…………..