Happily Whatever After - Tips & Tales for Relationships With Karan And Shokhi

Don't judge people for the choices they make when you don't know the options they had to choose from! When you decide to move out of the family home and create your own life, you are judged for leaving behind your parents. But no one sees the reasons why you took that step. What is better living in a hostile situation for the sake of being together as a family or choosing to live away and...

Everyone has dreams of celebrating their first marriage anniversary in the most romantic way possible! After all it's an achievement to survive the first year of marriage, the hardest time for most couples. When we finally reached this big milestone in our relationship, how it got compromised again because of some random issues thrown our way. How financial responsibilities become a constant p...

After Diwali came Bhai dooj and then came the family to our new home for the first time. How there was a home tour of silent judgment and what not. As newer generations change the way of celebrating the festivals, the older generation resists that change and the end result is them sulking at the festivals. Eventually dampening everyone's spirits. Is that right? Should you have fun and go with...

First of all so sorry about the cold we both have which makes us sound so phlegmy. But at the same time, we kept our commitment to bring you our real life experience of our First Diwali after Marriage! How was your first Diwali together? Were you just following rituals and trying to fulfill expectations ? Did you fear judgement/questions from your new family? All First festivals as a married coupl...

Due to some technical disturbances we had to cut short the last episode so here is the second half of our Love Bible! Do you have little love rituals with your partner? They can be something as simple as morning coffee /tea together. Greeting your partner with a kiss at the end of the day? Morning cuddles before you get out of bed? A comfort show that you binge together while being a couch potato!...

Do you have little love rituals with your partner? They can be something as simple as morning coffee /tea together. Greeting your partner with a kiss at the end of the day? Morning cuddles before you get out of bed? A comfort show that you binge together while being a couch potato! Every couple has their own versions of rituals. These kinds of small gestures will help you in many ways- 1. Building...

What happens when you feel guilty about choosing your own happiness over your dysfunctional family? How family members try to make you feel bad about having a better life than them? They don't even understand what they are doing but they come from a long time generational trauma of seeing this cycle of suffering being passed on since ages. Your parents can sometimes feel angry that they didn't get...

What happens when a couple has more bad days than happy days even before they complete 1st year of marriage? What happens when you know there are no personality issues in your spouse but still the fights happen because of external problems? Even though you have your own space, those external issues still manage to creep into your relationship and become bigger and bigger day by day. How do you fin...

Be Careful with your words, once they are said, they can only be forgiven never forgotten. There were certain things spoken to both of us, spoken between us which remain with us permanently like an old wound. Please never talk in anger because once words are spoken, they can't be taken back. Also, a person will always remember how you make them feel. Guilt is the worst enemy of any relationshi...

Your Parent's marriage is your first benchmark of love and how a relationship should be. But when a child comes from a broken household, it affects his psyche because when he gets into a relationship in his adult life, he has never seen what a happy healthy relationship looks like. He can either choose to create a broken relationship just like his parents or choose to create a better life for...

Indian Parents don't realize how they are controlling their children and their marital relationships. They think they are doing it for the better of their children but they don't see how it's just their own patterns and trauma turning them into controlling human beings. They project their own problems onto their kids and think that by controlling them, they will be able to feel better...

In this Episode of HWA we will explore the profound ripple effects of generational trauma on family dynamics. We talk about what happened with us right after marriage and how this cycle of trauma started playing out on us. The blockbuster movie Rocky aur Rani ki Prem Kahani talks about this generational trauma beautifully. This movie was eerily close to our love story so we decided to delve deep i...

Welcome to an exclusive interview with my HUSBAND about how life changes for Men after marriage! PART 2 Soon after you get married, your life becomes all about CHANGE, not only for women but for MEN as well. When a man becomes a husband, he shoulders the responsibility of one more person in his household, the most important person in life. His wife! We all know how all females go through a major t...

Welcome to an exclusive interview with my HUSBAND about how life changes for Men after marriage! Soon after you get married, your life becomes all about CHANGE, not only for women but for MEN as well. When a man becomes a husband, he shoulders the responsibility of one more person in his household, the most important person for life. His wife! We all know how all females go through a major transfo...

Welcome to an exclusive interview with my wife about how life changes for women after marriage! Soon after you get married, your life becomes all about CHANGE, especially for the women. All females go through a major transformation after marriage, we find out unfiltered unspoken truths about what happens to a wife once she starts living in her husband's home. How does life take a turn for better o...

Welcome to an exclusive interview with my wife about how life changes for women after marriage! Soon after you get married, your life becomes all about CHANGE, especially for the women. All females go through a major transformation after marriage, we find out unfiltered unspoken truths about what happens to a wife once she starts living in her husband's home. How does life take a turn for bett...

The actual honeymoon is over in a few days and a newly married couple is back to mundane life. How life changes for a couple right after the wedding and how you need to remember to be kind to each other in those initial few days because the wife is dealing with huge changes in life, moving a house forever and starting a new life in a completely new environment with complete strangers. It can make...

Wedding Shenanigans - mandatory Mamaji and Fufaji sulking at weddings. How one more time he betrayed her because of his family! And what he didn't know was she wanted to call him the night before to call it off? Reality of wedding for bride and groom, what really happens on a wedding night and how it's just another day for other people to enjoy but you don't even get proper meals as a...

This time around he made sure he did everything right and handled the family issues all by himself. We compromised on a whole lot of things to pay for a wedding to make others happy, was that the right thing to do? When you try to take things in your own hands, how Indian families react to it? Managing and Paying for your own wedding is always a huge responsibility, how did it turn out for us? In...

He was finally discharged from the hospital and recuperated at home. Whereas she was caught in the middle of the same drama with the family one more time. This time though....she already had one foot out the door and after he started getting healthy, she was planning a complete and total exit from his life and family. Whereas seeing her love and care during the whole hospital ordeal, he had made u...

This Episode was one of the hardest times of our life. Hope you find some learnings from this. Truth is always stranger than fiction. unfortunately, this was a real-life incident for us and not just a fictional story. We wish no one ever goes through this and everyone remains happy and healthy, and never needs to see the insides of a hospital. One day when he called to tell her he won't be abl...

A year of weddings and living in denial about our own wedding. He just wanted to get married and she just wanted to AVOID the whole topic together! It's heartbreaking when the whole world can see your love but your partner doesn't want to get married. But both of us had our reasons, plus his controlling parents and her "good-girl" conditioning didn't help the situation at all...

What would you do if you found out, the love of your life is under massive debt and running on a cut-to-cut credit card, EMI cycle? Would that be a deal breaker for the relationship? What is worse, when you find out about it before marriage or after? Find out what happened when she found out about all of his never-ending financial debt and loans from the market and not from a bank. Did she find mo...

What happens when you have to Break up not because there is an issue between you both as a couple, but because other people have problems with your Relationship? When he realized we can't be together, because of his mother, he tried one last thing. He wanted to take one last getaway together before they parted ways. But, Divine intervention took them to the doorsteps of some professional couple co...

When she called off the Wedding, he thought she did it because of just a misunderstanding. His mother gaslighted him, and he believed it! Have you been in love with a Mumma's boy ever? It's always her word against the world. So there is no point arguing or trying to convince him otherwise. She had no more energy left to fix this relationship, but he still showed up and kept trying to fix it. Did t...