After decades together, how can two people who once shared everything slowly become strangers? After years of togetherness, the most painful distance is the one that happens inside the same home. I have seen marriages break — even after 20, 30, and sometimes more years. And every time I witness it, I keep returning to one question: how does a relationship that began with promises end with two people feeling like strangers? We often say marriage is made in heaven. Whether it starts as an arranged union or a love story, almost every couple begins with hope — hope for a shared life, for loyalty, for staying together through good and difficult days. In the beginning, there is affection, curiosity, and effort. When two people who were once strangers start living together, they slowly discover each other’s habits, temperaments, expectations, and weaknesses. They may find that they don’t always think alike. And that is perfectly normal. I think the trouble starts when every disagreement ...
Stories from India. Lessons from Life. At 70, I’m still curious about life. Writing since 2019, I share thoughts on spirituality, temples, travel, Indian culture, food, ageing, relationships, AI and life, read by 2.35Lakh+ worldwide Seventy years have taken me through laughter and tears, dreams and disappointments, love and loss. Yet after all these years, I still wonder: who am I?