Passage of Time

"It's getting late, sonny boy! The school bus will be here anytime. Let me help you with the socks while you finish your breakfast." I said as I glanced at the clock.

"Mom, we are running late for the convocation ceremony. Allow me to help you so we can be on the roads soon." said the same boy, 21 years later, as he helped me with the socks due to my arthritic hips. 

Embracing the inevitability of time is crucial in navigating the waters of life. We must keep rowing our boat to make a difference in this lifetime. 

 In 99 words (no more, no less), write a story about a loving relationship with an adult child. What happens when a significant child in one’s life becomes an adult?  How did the relationship shift? What is the importance of the new dynamic? Go where the prompt leads!

How important is infidelity in a Relationship

Last week I saw two movies that revolved around relationships.

In the first one, the couple was happily married until the guy goes on a business trip and lets loose and gets intimate with someone local. When his partner finds out, hell breaks loose; leading to a divorce.

Second movie, the couple have an open relationship and live happily under the same roof. However, there are times when the couple strives for integrity.

A relationship between a couple can withstand all turmoil of life if there is honesty, faithfulness, sincerity, loyalty and confidence in each other.

In the latter movie, even though the couple was in an open relationship there was this hiccup somewhere between them wishing to be just by themselves and not share themselves with anyone else. That attachment between a couple makes them wanna spend the rest of their lives with each other. If that goes missing, there are chances that the above adjectives that help glue a marriage together will loose its stickum to keep them together.

Thus, an adultery in a relationship cannot survive even though pacts are made in the open.

As the saying goes...sharing is caring, but, not in the case of a partnership, whose foundation lies on a special affection.

Mantra for today: Attachment towards each other works as a clamp, and helps keep a relationship intact.

Who wears the Pants in your Relationship?

Who wears the Pants in your Relationship?

Marriage is an institute where the couple gives and takes from each other without being obligated about it. There is gratitude and utmost caring for the other.

However, unknowingly, one of the spouses in the relationship is either:

• Wants the remote near him/her 
• Argues relentlessly until he/she is a winner 
• Fishes for a compliment every now and then 
• Picky about going out, thus selects the restaurant/decides upon the evening 
• Hardly apologizes
• Handles the chores
• Loves to do most of the talking
• Pays the Bills

The list is endless if a couple sits down to chalk out what they do together and prefer to have it their own way. This will be a good therapy for them if only they get out of it with a smiling face :)

Some of us have just taken the stride in a normal way, and laugh out the defects of the spouse. While some continue to complain now and then, and hope that things get sorted out soon.

What to do?

Some of the issues if divided such as paying bill, doing chores will help divide the work within the marriage and give peace of mind to the other over it.

The other issues need to be either taken with an extra puff of oxygen (by deep breathing) or by rolling your eyes now and then when in such a situation.

Mantra for today: Tolerance towards flaws gives stability to the Marriage.