breaking up

Meera married her long-time boyfriend Khushwant last year. Everyone, including Meera and Khush, considers this a match made in heaven. Theirs is your typical “…lived happily ever after” kinda story. The only hitch is that Meera is not really happy. After a couple of months into the marriage, it dawned on Meera that love was not enough to make a marriage work. The differences between her old and new families seemed petty before marriage. But now the same differences often become a bone of contention between Meera and Khush.

Prachi, my sister had these words hurled at her by her boyfriend of four years. Prachi was devastated. She had been expecting him to ask her to marry him. This was such a shock for her. Armaan told her "Prachi, I don't feel like I used to, with you anymore. I don't love you anymore. I have fallen out of love with you." Since then, it's been hell on earth for Prachi. She cannot seem to do anything. She cannot see any reason to live anymore. She has considered many options to end the torment: dating lots of guys, getting even, worst of all, suicide.