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The ‘married‘ label not only amends your current status in the social circle, on Facebook as well as your NIC and passport but like it or lump it, it also brings some imminent changes in your personality, timber, routine, perspective, obsessions, habits and your stance about life. You have to live by these changes and welcome them with open arms only for your peace of mind embracing a happy living.
The sooner, the better. Because we girls have been growing up listening to the words “compromise” and “flexible” since I guess, forever? So what does this label of being ‘married‘ do to you? Let me jot down some.
1. First And Foremost, It Changes Your “Mera” To “Hamara”!
Because it’s a journey from mine to ours.
My bedroom, my washroom, my bed, my tv, my light, my pankha, my dressing table, my side lamps, my treadmill, my billi, chooza (wrong). Replace ‘my‘ with ‘our‘ and read again! Perfect now? It takes a while to get used to it.
I remember soon after getting married, I asked my husband to go somewhere to which he said “chalo” and I asked “apki car mein?” He replied, “No, Hamari car mein!” I felt a lump in my throat right then whispering “Aww, how sweet!”
2. Your Commands Become Your Duties
A sudden realization shakes you from top to bottom. It’s not your Ammi ka ghar anymore where you were the ruling monarch of the kingdom constantly instructing and bribing your siblings to obey if you are the eldest or there are 1 or 2 smaller than you.
Pre-marriage:
“Yar pani pila do sawaab kamao”
“Meri Sapphire ki shirt chaiye?”
“Han chaiye”
“Pehle bartan dho do”
And as little as screaming your lungs out summoning your siblings and then asking for AC/TV remote that is just across you on the table in the same room. And also innocently asking your mother about your food choices.
“Ammi mere liye bhi do rotiyan bana dein”
“Ammi aaj nihari bana lein”
Post Marriage:
“Ammi, kitni rotiyan banani hain?”
“Sunein, aj kia pakaon?”
“What would you like for breakfast?”
3۔ You Start Taking The Saying “Sharing Is Caring” As Solemnly As A Slate Gravestone!
There is nothing you don’t offer to everyone before having it to yourself. Especially that last bite of a Magnum ice-cream or a McDonald’s burger, a Delizia brownie or a Pay To Biryani has possibly escaped your better half’s mouth (fortunately) after at least 5-7 attempts of offering (because of puchna farz hai) before ending in yours. And the last bite has it all!!!
The unmarried you, who could gulp down an entire bar of chocolate alone or ingurgitate a whole 500ml soda can within a single minute now eats patiently and drinks with no rush only after making sure others are well satiated.
4. Wiper And Mop Become Your Best Buddies!
Among the basic requirements of life essential for your living, there’s a willy-nilly addition to it. Mopping the wet washroom after Mr. husband takes shower becomes a daily norm. You may skip a one time meal but can you live by a wet bathroom having water scattered like the world map with bodily hairs separating the countries and continents? Certainly not!!
5. You Become An Automated Mobile Peg Picking Whatever Comes Your Way
From dirty clothes that intended to go in the laundry basket but landed right on your washroom door, collecting socks and pairing them-one from the north side of your room and the other one on south, to a protruding neck-tie peeking from under the bed and in order to pull it out you discover a whole world of long-lost objects that even your maid couldn’t locate.
6۔ You Start A Unisex Campaign For A Few Mutual Things
Your cute pink washroom slippers change to oversized huge black/blue ones capable of accommodating a dinosaur’s foot too. Mr. husband’s comfy tees (Pj’s being your own) replace your girly and sometimes sexy sleepwear. And not to forget a few of his scents and perfumes you put on occasionally because their fragrances are way better scented than ours. Aren’t they?
7۔ Your Personal Things Require A Separate Space
You have to search for another place not easily reachable for your towel, comb and nail cutter because the male species don’t really mind to get their hands on yours unless they are a clean freak.
8. A Set Sleep Schedule
You are no longer that carefree bird who slept when sleepy and woke up when the body ached after lying sleep dead for hours. You now have a short and finite number of hours to get some rest while accommodating the ME time within that stretch. Either sleep or enjoy, the choice and time are yours.
9. You Have To Be Stand-By When He Takes A Shower
To keep your sanity intact, observe how long your husband takes shower and once calculated, be present outside the washroom to hold his oh-so-wet towel otherwise it may end up landing on your just-perfectly-made-bed or you’re full of cushions comfy couch.
10. Providing Free Entertainment For Everybody
No matter how much you suck at talking, serving and interacting, you start attending guests and serving them one after the other engaging everyone with their talk of interest. Yes, marriage does this to you. Bonus points if you are already an extrovert.
11. You Bid A Goodbye To All Kinds Of “Shame Shame“
You certainly know this well. All the sharam and lehaz is barely for the starting 2 months. It doesn’t mean you become be-sharam! Rather, you just open up to the extent a rubber band can be fully pulled before breaking. Tensile stress in Physics! You start putting up demands and shamelessly asking for money instead of waiting for pocket money from abbu jee!
You have a new motto in life now i-e
“couples who fart together, stay together”
12. Adulting Served Right
All the adult jokes start making sense to you if you were a naive one before and you enjoy being a part of those secret code word conversations. There is an increase in your decent vocab bringing in new information from none other than your soul partner!
13. Generosity Becomes Your Virtue
Before getting married, you only knew the meaning of receiving. Receiving gifts, money, invitations, greetings from your family. But marriage makes you as generous as the sun in spring. You start spending on your family. Start surprising them with random gifts. You start planning to make their special days worth remembering investing in ideas and unique birthday presents.
14. You Become Picture Obsessed
If you were a strictly-no-picture person before, then you are not the same anymore. You tend to capture every moment now and have at least 10 pictures of the same moment before you settle for the final picture. You keep looking for a good background on every wall, nook, and corner. Deleting any pictures or transferring them is the last thing you ought to do unless you are unable to install the system software update because Low space issues!
Can you relate to any one of the above? Let me know via comments.
