Real Couple Stories & Expert Inteviews

She had hundreds of likes from random men and comments that would irk me, but she was such a good wife to me that I never really questioned her about her virtual activity.

Abhinav and I have been married for seven years and I have never seen him cry. We had a love marriage after two years of a happy relationship without any arguments and I saw that as a sign of a healthy relationship.

I thought I would get to live with my girlfriend forever, that too in my parent's house. We would work hard, party harder, chill with friends and life would be easy. So the last thing I had imagined was us fighting because of my parents.

Instagram is full of couple goals. There were plant-parents, dog-parents, vegan-duos, traveling-partners, fitness-jodis - so amidst all of these, who were we?

We had developed a routine. The same old short-lived foreplay, at times oral too but mostly jumping to climax. After a point, it felt like a job, but neither of us complained. He did his thing and I started to fake it.

Why was she so happy with me when I was so miserable in life? I never did anything special for her and always used her to get my work done.I would call her shallow and what not when all she ever did was give, give and give.

But before I could respond, Philip walked into the room and politely said, ‘No, I think it’s the other way round. Jyoti’s parents have raised her to be honest and respectful.

All through my years of growing up, if there was one thing I always wanted, it was to have my own baby. But I ended up falling in love with someone who did not. Here’s how we reached a middle ground. 

‘Come home for dinner with me’ - he said one evening. ‘Are your parents out? I asked. ‘No, mom is at home. I want you to meet her’. We had only been dating six months, but I was comforted to hear that. ‘Sure’, I said.

‘But I just want us to be friends with benefits’, Jerry said out loud just as the music in the nightclub paused. While she was embarrassed, other men looked at me with envy! ‘Works for me’, I said instantly.

They say ‘distance makes the heart grow fonder’. When it comes to long-distance relationships, however, that’s not always the case. Here’s the story of how we made ours work.