@simran
Simmie what a wonderful thread yaar..👏... very very much essential for the SGP members as am sure many experiences and expectations will flow in here.....
as earlier posted too.... mine was an arranged marraige.... hardly interacted with my hubby for 4 days after engagement (the families knew each other distantly as fate had it our horoscopes matched and we got engaged...)and then he had to rush back abroad for his job.... in those 4 days of dating too... we hardly knew anything about the other as there were many distractions such as we went for a movie "dil toh pagal hai..." where i was more keen in watching SRK than him....🤣.... ( he still complaints about that.....😉...). then 9 months of gap for marraige but i took efforts at that time to understand my inlaws better, my husband's preferences and stuff like that..... In my marraige, the people of my inlaws building greeted me more than my hubby as i am too much of a social animal....🤣....
Yet darling.... the 9 months of my premarital interactions and my following 9 months when i had to reside in my inlaws place (till i obtained a visa)taught a hell lot of eye-opening lessons for me... the people were the same, their affection was the same ...the new situations and how i had to deal in those situations had all the major goofups i committed... so i had to learn life is a rose.. true.... but remember to handle it with the thorns too.....however have absolutely no regrets as i emerged much matured due to the circumstances and i stayed back with my inlaws for 9 years and kept joining my husband only during my child's vacations.....
Later it became difficult for my child when he missed his father and now we have put up together .... i would say my child too learnt a lot from the elders and benefitted a lot from the joint family though in a tough way..... many a time he had to learn it the hard way but i am happy today with the kind of compliments that come our way in grooming him has been totally due to the experiences in his life.....
So for me joint family is a wonderful experience and i have high regards and respect for each and every member of my family.....!