I love reading about everyone's personal experiences with love, marriage and their partners here ❤️. I don't let the show influence my thinking about it all however much I may joke about wanting these filmy situations 😆 but I love taking in these real stories from everyone here. I've had the best examples in my parents in this matter. My parents are nothing like Shiva and Raavi but they have had a very similar beginning in terms of how they got married - maybe I'll share this one day.
As for ShiVi, I've said this previously a few times that I'm okay with them being attracted to each other, but I don't want love to happen anytime soon. I don't understand the concept of falling in love when you haven't communicated enough with each other. I can understand liking having someone there as a comfort thing, feeling attraction towards them and feeling that awkwardness. I want ShiVi to be friends first, have trust, be emotionally connected - I want them to address all their issues and build an understanding. I want them to go through the whole butterflies in the stomach, looking for each other, wanting to spend time together, seeking each other out to talk, wanting to be alone with each other, sharing things, doing small things for each other, missing each other.
That's why I was delighted with the whole phone texting and video calls. We're getting a few of these things but they're not enough to fall in love. They need the conversation part too, for me they've started to. I'm going to be patient about it all, I think it'll slowly come ❤.