The Rainbow - A Shruthi-Shirley Collab - Ch-15 on P-23 - Page 10

Originally posted by: shruthiravi

I have kept one thing constant. What will make my hubby happy😃. I have never took centre stage in my laws place. If he is the son, I am the DIL, if he is the brother I am the SIL and if he is husband well I am wife. So it has been always what role he plays I play it accordingly. I have eliminated more than 75% of the issues by this one approach.

But approach only possible where your hubby gives due credit for your contributions 😃

Originally posted by: shruthiravi

@jaya you have not commented on atleast 2 chapters of Seven Vows

Originally posted by: JRia

By centre stage do you mean by not being daughter, sister etc? how does this solve issues? how does it matter if husband gives credit or not? and what do u mean by credit giving? praising publicly ?

Chapter 8- The Squabble

Radhika stood fuming " Keshav do you even know what you are doing. Do you even realize what you have done is unprofessional behavior"

" Relax Radhika. Why are you making a big thing out of it. Now imagine when you are driving the car and and another car comes in wrong direction, due swerve the car or go straight " asked Keshav

" Of course I will swerve the car, who wants collision" told Radhika

" Take it like that Radhika. She was going in wrong direction and I just swerved my car to avoid collision " told Keshav

" But Keshav what you forgot is that the car that is driven opposite hers is not mine or yours. But it is that of Sumant, her husband. So if swerving had to be done it had to be done by Sumant's lawyer not us. For us she is our client. And Keshav don't you know that a client comes to this firm with a trust placed on us. We will do things to the best interest of the client. They pay because of that trust Keshav and because they pay people like us get fat salaries. What you have done now is breaking the trust of a client. And believe me Keshav when trust is broken no matter who did it and no matter for what reason it is next to impossible to get it back. And if you are planning to do something like this in property case it is fine I will argue it because I don't like such stunts. My husband will have to tolerate my absence which is much better to me than compromising my work ethics" told Radhika

Keshav tried to explain, but Radhika walked to her room briskly. Keshav knew he need not pull any stunts for property case because their client was on right side. But for the first time he was disturbed and for rest of the day he just managed to go about the work in an absent minded way

" Keshav you need a head massage" asked Malini in their room. She could see her husband was in deep thoughts from the time he came in. He quickly ate the lunch without telling anything. Neither did he spend time with Diya. It was so unlike of him. Now again he was sitting in the table than in bed with her.

Getting no response Malini got up and went to him and started to massage his head

" Malini please can you leave me alone for sometime" Keshav told in an irritated voice removing her hands.

Malini's eyes filled with tears. Her husband was never rude with her. She went to the bed and started crying. Keshav looked at her. Then realizing what he has done he got up and went to her.

" Malini see I am not angry with you. It is just that for the first time someone refused my help and told my way of helping is wrong"

Malini wiped her tears " Who told that"

" My colleague Radhika Singh" told Keshav

" I had told you not to help these working woman. They think they are superwoman and can do everything. Most of them are feminists. Doesn't respect a man" told Malini

Keshav didn't tell anything, but that night as Malini slept Keshav was deep in thought. Does a woman has to be dependent on man, just like his wife who cannot or will not do a single thing outside the 4 walls of the house. He was not sure.

@Ria my belief is if you do the duties of DIL and SIL properly you will gradually become daughter and sister. Be truthful to the relation that binds you to that house, you are not daughter of the house you are the DIL. That's the truth. You dont jump into issues there like your home where you pass opinion on each and every thing. You observe things, learn things and by being a good DIL, SIL you gain their trust and love and they start treating you like the member of the family.

Hm ok.. this is what u meant.. u have said before too.. though if u and ur husband don't agree as in have different opinions which are polar opposite.. then?

So Keshav wanted a working women while Abhi a typical housewife? as always one doesn't get what one wants..

We manage to find mid ground by giving time to each other to analyze the issue

Shruthi, relatively small one but with dense thoughts. It was good that Radhika snubbed Keshav in the beginning. Many times ladies will think many times before expressing their views to their colleagues thinking that might look rude and by the time they muster courage, damage would have been done. So never compromise on your ethics be it personal or professional. Make yourself crystal clear and it might burden you little but people will think twice before meddling in your work.

@jaya he tried to meddle into her work without her requesting that too not the right way. And yes you are right, we ladies keep mum many times. But if Radhika didnt speak Keshav will do it the next time and the reputation she had built with her hard work can go down the drain. In this case also a man might escape but in the professional sphere woman is crucified more saying lack of competence