So....More people are getting married and again close to home. Let's start with the distanter ones - the boy I used to hang around with constantly in A is getting married to the girl he started seeing at the same time that I was there. In fact, I was there when he made the transition from 'just good friends' to ' more than'. And the next one is a relationship that I broke to the world - again in A, before it was obvious and before I left, I told everybody that this is a relationship and I was dismissed and lo and behold they got engaged 3 weeks ago!!
It's less that I want to be married and more that I dont want other people to be!! It's selfish I know but I've observed that married people seem to have lots less time [much like people who have just entered relationships: reference me!!] but I don't know with the sacrament of matrimony, family and those necessary lines seem to acquire importance relegating the rest of life to a lower rung. Also married people seem to have domestic woes - single people live with family or just don't care!! and even if they do, it never seems to reach that level of discussion as with the married ones.
My close friends who are married don't live in the country so when they come here, they are not in the domestic space - but with everybody else, conversation seems to dwindle. Another feature of marriage is that they come out as a couple mostly - it's nver just girl time or guy time - it's always lets do stuff together. Quite strange!
Anyhoo, I just think, it's much harder to be single, when everyone who used to share your life with has a partner! Maybe it won't be true for my friends, but it's just a scary thought!!
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It is true. I sit on the couch more and on ocassion have been known to indulge in conversation about maids and cooks. Ugh!
So when are we getting to see.. Al "I do" is wanna have some fun :-p.. very true that married people have no time.. a friend of mine ( married of course) said this.."It is just like a second job at home..appraisal..unforgiving boss..meeting of expectations and everything" and you can also gather from this that he is a male friend
terribly scarry thought that the next time I come to Bombay I will be THE single person in the group.
Just me. Last one standing. *gulp*
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