AYSHA’S WORLD

I’ve been working on an article on ‘reasons for divorce’ for the past month or so. While it’s been driving me crazy, it also gave me a lot of insight into marital issues and married life in today’s society.

Ofcourse it goes without saying that there is less tolerance for problems, less room for adjustment among young married couples nowadays. And extramarital affairs…….looks like just about everyone’s having a fling right?

Is it so hard now to be faithful to one person? What is true love anyway? I think most of us mistake ‘love’ for that heady, wild, delicious sensation of actually ‘falling in love’, when everything is new and incredibly exciting, the lightest touch is heaven and your partner is perfection itself. Maybe all these people having affairs are just trying to replicate that feeling, mistaking it for true love.

I guess it takes a great deal of maturity to understand that this ‘fairy tale feeling’  is only the beginning of the long path love must travel…..When I think of Talib and me, and all the ups and downs…and its been a lot of downs…..we’ve been through together….I know that things may not be wildly romantic all the time, and mundane things like household chores and child-raising may seem to take over most of our day-day interactions….but everytime I look into his eyes and we say ‘ I love you’ to each other, I know that is true love……..