The Rut called Marriage

A recent conversation with a friend went something along the lines of her commenting on how strange it was that I haven’t fallen into the rut yet. The rut that marriage supposedly is.
How is it a rut? I ask her. And she stops for a moment and asks back, “How is it not? I mean [...]

k away

A surprising number of people commented on k being away for the week this time round, even though it was not the first time we have been away from each other. Maybe I looked more tired and drawn this time round- I was battling a bout of exhaustion and flu. Or perhaps after becoming part [...]

casting of roles

All relationships start out equal and then somewhere, suddenly someone is stronger.
A friend and I found our perspective over broken hearts by laughing over how needy we used to become in our earlier relationships, despite having started out in them as smart, independent, thinking, liberated women. Somehow, towards what we could later tell was the [...]