Trust me when I say that the two did end up getting married. Both engineers. Both employed. And everything appeared to be going well.
Until.
He got a job in Canada.
And he took his wife and went.
He working. She is a homemaker [hate this word, sounds more like a mestri].
A couple of years later, they return to India, buy a house.
He working. She still the aforementioned homemaker.
Do you see where I am going with this?
If you think homemaker is my point, then you are totally wrong. Well, not totally.
Her mother, a widow for a long time, moved in next door. Every day, the mother and daughter get together. He cant stand his mother-in-law's manipulative and medling behaviour. One thing leads to another, and we see hubby & wife squabbling a lot.
They decided to part ways. She says she will take the house and only then grant him a divorce.
It's only here that she realises the house is not in his name. His father countersigned the loan needed to buy the house. Father made sure the house was in his wife's name.
The girl changes her tune overnight. No. I don't want a divorce.
The boy is wiser.
Today. They have been separated for four years or more. Leading independent lives. 100's of people are working overtime, trying to bring them together. There is so much bitterness, that I don't think it will happen. But who knows?
This all was pre-pandemic and I am not up-to-date on this story. I only hope there is a nice juicy part 3 to tell. I mean with a happy ending.
This one is so patronizingly subcontinental- you have to be from the subcontinent to understand the logic . Very Original.
ReplyDeleteI wonder if the boy had the presence of mind to tell her " well- sample me for a few weeks and if you dont want the product - no harm, no foul- I will wait for next janma.
I have an ironic feeling this guy will end up selling dictionaries in front of barton center- so much for lack of marketing skills.