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She Got Married To The Love Of Her Life At 39 But Their Relationship Is As Young As 18

byLavanya Shrivastava
14th October 2016
2 minute read

A relationship that has learned to appreciate each other with time will never need an evidence. Society might demand a proof for love (marriage and kids to begin with) but those who are in love will be alright, no matter what.

Such is a story of a banker who met the love of her life when she was 29 years old. They never felt the need to validate their relationship by getting married, but only after 10 years of sharing everything, they decided to tie the knot. She shared her wonderful story on Humans of Bombay. Her story is so beautiful that we couldn’t stop ourselves from sharing it with you.

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“I’ve been a banker all my life. I only started working by the time I was 28 and that what’s my entire focus was on — I didn’t pay too much attention to marriage, infact I don’t think it even crossed my mind. I met my partner when I was 29, and we were great friends with a great understanding of each other. I’ve always been independent and focused on a path of self- discovery before anything else and he understood that. We decided to get married only 10 years later — not that we ever needed a piece of paper to validate our relationship; he was my partner in every aspect long before we took those Pheras. There was a lot of noise around our wedding– so many people were talking about how it would never last…but people will always talk, what can you do?
But the wedding was a beautiful, small, intimate affair — we decided to get married on Monday and the same Friday we already were!
It’s been 28 years since, and even though we moved into becoming ‘senior citizens’ pretty quickly — we still often date. We eat together, travel extensively and almost every other Friday go out for a movie — it’s nice; it’s comfortable. He’s around here somewhere — thing is we both still love our space so because he’s so tall and I can never keep up with him…we go for our walks separately. It’s funny, sometimes I pass by him and we wave at each other like we’re two friends who haven’t seen each other in a while and after about an hour, we’ll both meet at one point and go home together!”

 

Isn’t it beautiful? There is so much hope of true love in this one story, and a lesson to take away too. It’s alright for a woman to live alone and find her focus on her career, rather than the society telling her to get married because she might miss out on having kids or a life.

Well, the thing is she has a life now and it’s time we all grow up.

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