Arranged and then Loved marriage..that was our marriage..
Our marriage was arranged and we had a nice 6 months before our marriage….to begin our love journey together…
At the end of the six months nobody would have believed ours to be an arranged marriage even if we had done a “karporoam adichi sathiyam”.
First only his parents came to see me and the “hai handsome” was to meet me only after his parents approved of me… So on my first meeting with my would-be-in-laws, I told them that I cannot decide until I talk to him, because I am a person who will talk only when spoken to.(my parents went “WhoooooaaaA????” )
So I wanted my husband to be a talkative person …atleast to me…
So, dutifully, my would-be FIL called me the next day morning at 7:00 AM and said that I can talk to his son (Hai handsome). So courteous was my to-be husband that he shouted over the phone to his father “Naan ellam pesa matten po paa”.
( I will not talk) I was like 
But reluctantly he started talking and from that minute there was no going back….
Even in the first call, he told about his behaviour, likings.etc, etc…and we were talking for about 45 mins (till 7:45). I was so captured by his talk that I didn’t even notice that it was getting late for my office until he reminded me of it. (Love at first voice..i suppose)
Next week, he got a mobile number for himself and a new mobile for me too with a corporate connection.
There was not a week till our marriage when we didn’t see each other atleast 4 times a week and not a day when we didn’t talk for atleast one hour together.(all the sweet nothings which I doubt he remembers now)..and not a movie released which we didn’t see together.
It was this guy who taught me the meaning of Love and more than that gave me the special gift of “being loved by someone you love”
This doesn’t mean that my marriage has been a bed of roses for me…There are many occasions where we have had a kudumi pudi sandai…
and I used to tell him that whatever he told me before marriage was all lies, (even though I know that he did not lie). But still all those fights only made our relationship stronger every bit.
Last year I had to go to S’gpore officially for 10 day training and since I was pregnant 2nd time, my darling hubby didn’t want to leave me alone and so he gave up his business and joined me for 10 days. It so happened that we wanted to buy things for everybody and since I am a shop-alcoholic,
we spent every single dollar we had for buying gifts for others and we both didn’t buy any single thing for ourselves, since we had only enough money to come back to india.
So we came back and I am distributing gifts to everyone in the family and suddenly I find one box, which I did not buy. I open it to check whose gift it is and find one beautiful stone and pearl set in it. I look at my hubby and he looks at me and smiles back. All these years I was brooding over my husbands lack of giving surprises and here this man has bought something for me without me ever knowing it.
That moment I was at a loss for words.
We got married on 05 Sep 2005, and not once till this date, have I doubted my decision of marrying this man….and I know that I never will.
I love this guy more than anything in this world and I would have still loved him even if he did not give me the surprise gift. And I know that he loves me equally.