I DO.....I DO
Those magic words that are uttered either in haste, when you are completely handicapped by love or after months of brooding and thinking to the one introduced by your parents. Year after year that day is marked on your calendar as the day of sheer bliss or the day of the greatest mistake. In general terms it is know as Anniversary. Couples have invented the Day We Met Anniversary, the D-Day Anniversary(meaning the day we knew we were made for each other) and many others, but the one we all celebrate sometime or the other is the evergreen Marriage Anniversary.
Now, men are complete dodos when it comes to such occasions. A typical husband (such as me) on this particular day would either just make do with a beautiful card...one of those big ones with mushy poems or a small gift usually a piece of jewellery or a voucher for a massage in a spectacular spa and think that he is the best and most caring, affectionate husband in the world till he sees the 'is this all?' look from his wife. Before he can even blink she uses that deadly and lethal weapon that only womankind can use to bring her man down........sulking. Then begins the wooing and convincing that he did want to get something else but just couldn't and how he values her the most in his life, even more than his expensive Android phone or his beloved Playstation (all this while he gets ready for office). But the wife wont have it and says that he should have taken the day off if she was that special to him. Now she's hit him real hard and delivers the knockout punch by retreating into a corner and sulking even more. The typical husband realises he's lost the bout and has to somehow salvage the situation and his self-esteem and to do so becomes the greatest multi-tasker ever. He begins talking non-stop of how his work is hard and its not easy balancing the personal and the professional and blah blah blah. Then he holds his wife gently, caressing her face, one part of his brain is coining up all the sweetest words and gestures possible, while the other is conjuring up stories to escape the boss's wrath at work. Finally after what seems like an eternity to the husband, the wife agrees to a compromise....he will take her for a night out, the husband agrees readily and is happy when she says that she isn't finished.....a night out on a weekday and soon. She stands with arms crossed, stern. He stares as if she just asked him for a foreign vacation. He knows there's no choice and just murmurs a yes and proceeds to leave for office, chest in, shoulders down muttering I DO I DO......
Those magic words that are uttered either in haste, when you are completely handicapped by love or after months of brooding and thinking to the one introduced by your parents. Year after year that day is marked on your calendar as the day of sheer bliss or the day of the greatest mistake. In general terms it is know as Anniversary. Couples have invented the Day We Met Anniversary, the D-Day Anniversary(meaning the day we knew we were made for each other) and many others, but the one we all celebrate sometime or the other is the evergreen Marriage Anniversary.
Now, men are complete dodos when it comes to such occasions. A typical husband (such as me) on this particular day would either just make do with a beautiful card...one of those big ones with mushy poems or a small gift usually a piece of jewellery or a voucher for a massage in a spectacular spa and think that he is the best and most caring, affectionate husband in the world till he sees the 'is this all?' look from his wife. Before he can even blink she uses that deadly and lethal weapon that only womankind can use to bring her man down........sulking. Then begins the wooing and convincing that he did want to get something else but just couldn't and how he values her the most in his life, even more than his expensive Android phone or his beloved Playstation (all this while he gets ready for office). But the wife wont have it and says that he should have taken the day off if she was that special to him. Now she's hit him real hard and delivers the knockout punch by retreating into a corner and sulking even more. The typical husband realises he's lost the bout and has to somehow salvage the situation and his self-esteem and to do so becomes the greatest multi-tasker ever. He begins talking non-stop of how his work is hard and its not easy balancing the personal and the professional and blah blah blah. Then he holds his wife gently, caressing her face, one part of his brain is coining up all the sweetest words and gestures possible, while the other is conjuring up stories to escape the boss's wrath at work. Finally after what seems like an eternity to the husband, the wife agrees to a compromise....he will take her for a night out, the husband agrees readily and is happy when she says that she isn't finished.....a night out on a weekday and soon. She stands with arms crossed, stern. He stares as if she just asked him for a foreign vacation. He knows there's no choice and just murmurs a yes and proceeds to leave for office, chest in, shoulders down muttering I DO I DO......
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