A letter I’d never send out

Dear C, You were the first person I in my life, that I could really connect with. I had friends before you, but I never got the whole funda behind the “best-friend” thing. I wasn’t good at socializing or making friends. But you made it easy. Despite my pathetic memory, I still remember my first [...]

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Dumping your kids on GParents

Contrast the two scenarios below.. M is our long time neighbour. She took VRS from her job 5 years ago. Since then she and her husband have been forced to live with their children in Bangalore to baby-sit their grand-daughter the whole day, so that the son and DIL can go to office without worrying [...]

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And they lived happily ever after

“So you think you can wait for two more years, until I can ask your family for your hand?” She stared at her screen. He was doing this online!!! This was the moment she had been waiting for. ———— They were very good friends, they knew everything about each other. Their chat sessions would go [...]

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Story time again!

“Why does she get to tell me what to do! I am not used to this” she fumed. “Please humor her, she is my mom after-all. And we do live in a joint family everybody has to do their part of the chores. Why are you being so selfish?”. He could not understand her. Was [...]

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The sinusoidal waves of love

Why is it that our closest relationships constantly have these love/hate troughs and crests? Consider me and P: Mostly, it is on the love side , but then we have a fight! and then we both try to irk each other even more. Both of us are convinced it was the other persons fault. If [...]

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One sentence is all it takes

- to make me get so mad at him ! – to make me fall in love with him all over again

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