They often met in the evening over dinner or just a cup of tea. Talked about their day, vented out their frustrations, or sometimes just acted foolish and made fun of each other. They found this better than directly heading back home. After their meet they would head home, content. In love all over again, they would catch up on some sound sleep, holding each other.
They hadn’t met for days. Although, both kept blaming their busy schedules, it was more of a juggle of taking each other for granted with prioritizing their time. They were growing frustrated, impatient and kept losing it on each other.
One day, after an unnecessary argument, they lay beside each other as usual, this time their faces turned to opposite directions. While lying there, one of them thought it was high time they met. Next day, a date was fixed for just a cup of tea. However late, none of them was allowed to give any excuses.
That evening, they had the best conversation and the best time ever, a long time after their marriage, over Ek Cup Chai.
This goes out to all the married couples out there. After the first year of marriage, that is once your honeymoon period is over, that’s when you feel the change. You start settling in and taking your better half for granted. Change is when you feel different, change is when you don’t want the monotone, change is when you feel you need to be different. Love always grows, it is never stagnant. Marriage shouldn’t be an excuse to end things, it gives you even more reasons to love each other, do more things to show your love and come closer. Playing around your pretty little secrets, things you like to do for each other, skipping certain plans just to spend time with each other, all this counts as much after marriage and just because you are married doesn’t mean you need to be all serious and should stop doing things. That desire of wanting to be around your person all the time, the excitement of wanting your love to be the first one to know about something that happened – be it the silliest of things, going beyond your limits to do something to make your partner happy, you live on all such moments.
To keep your relationship healthy, it is all the more important for you to have healthy conversations and keep time off for each other. What is more important is, to understand when the other needs space. Although you are partners, you are two different individuals and it is important to respect that you might not like the same things. You compromise, which is a different thing but the adjustments should be noted and returned as well.
Love is really not as complicated as they make it look like. It is the most beautiful, the purest and simplest of things. It just needs you to keep loving and things fall in place on their own, effortlessly.
Love is happiness, and happiness is the time you take out for just Ek Cup Chai…
Cheers to you, cheers to lyf…!
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