... as she loves him. I've explained this to many of my married friends but on Thursday it just broke my heart when I saw a girl I had seen years ago totally transformed post marriage. She belongs to a wealthy and modern family. However, she had no ambitions post high school because one guy happened to be the central force in her life. She did everything just to be with him and finally she achieved that goal when they got married against all odds.
I met her over lunch probably 10 years later. And I felt that she has this profound emptiness within her. She's nothing like the person I had once seen. All her fantasies of a married life with the love of her life had evaporated. You can associate so many factors as the cause behind this change. However, I believe, like I told her, the problem lies in the fact that her husband happens to be the only central force in her life but not vice versa. Her world begins and ends with him. But he has a world outside his home. A world equally important. So it's impossible for him to give her all his attention. But since she gives him all her attention, she expects the same degree of attention. When she doesn't receive that for practical reasons, disappointment takes place.
Paro happens to be in the same boat. Rudra's her only goal, desire, and dream in life. She has no life past Rudra. Whatever little she has is also connected to Rudra. For instance, her bonding with Kakusa, Sunehri, Maithali, and Babusa. Rudra is basically her entire world. So it's going to be just Rudra in Paro's life. Take Rudra out of it, and she's left with no life as her world crumbles to dust in front of her eyes.
But is she all that Rudra has in his life? Nope. Eventually, she'll be the most important relation in his life. He'll feel for no other the kind of love, affection, bonding, companionship, and desire that he feels for Paro. But then he has the world of BSD too that's going to be as much important to him. So Paro won't be the only central force in Rudra's life. Hence, it would be practically impossible for him to return her love with an equal force. As sad or unfair as it may sound, it is one unavoidable, acceptable, and valid truth.
Just one of my other unfettered rumblings on this RR-less weekend.
Edited by Oyster - 11 years ago