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Tag: partnership

  • Bonds That Bind

    Met the person of your dreams & fell in love – congratulations! Now how about staying in love, years after years, for better or for worse? Ever thought how easy or difficult of a navigation could this path of love be?

    Staying in love is the real deal, this is where the hard work begins. It requires active participation, open communication and concious collaborative efforts from both ends. Often folks find the initial thrill and adrenaline rush of love starts to taper down with time. Drowing in daily routine, nothing new to discover about the other person and a sense of familiarity rubs off the shine of new love.

    Sticking together

    Finding a common ground works best. It could be anything cultural – language, food, music, dance. Sharing similar tastes in music, dance, art does help; as nurturing them together brings out different facets of your love interest. Similarly sharing a significant past whether childhood, workplace or adulthood also cements the bond further.

    Finally what is more important is how often this commonality gets visited as life gets busy. This is where the going gets real to keep working at your relationship. Make it visual by adding physically or digital artifacts. These serve as reminders to things you both cherish. Add snippets of this shared past in your talks and make it the ikigai of your relationship, your reason of being together and cultivating joy more than stress.

  • Renew your relations

    Monotone, platonic, never-changing, always the same. Sounds boring right? Then why do we expect our relationships to be such. Why do words like change, newness, disruption cause us cold feet?

    Relationships are like living organisms. They are never stable. Whether it’s with your partner, friends, parents or siblings. Each relation is like an organism that has its own wishes, fancies and moods. The equation can undergo change in due course of time. It can change multiple times, with its own highs and lows, in’s and out’s. Stay unpurterbed as the true nature of a relation is to evolve, morph and take the shape of your lifestyle, milestones and other key aspects of life.

    Sometimes just looking at the equation with a critical pair of eyes helps. A fresh Point of View always helps. Something that worked in the past is no longer relevant while something that didn’t work might now be a huge hit. Thus it’s a mistake to write off any relationship and burn bridges completely. Never give up on the partnership you got as it is never a lost cause. The time you invested is always going to get you a return of equity. Infact it’s a wealth of wisdom, memories and shared experiences you have built together. There are pearls of wisdoms ingrained in your subtle memory, today or tomorrow they would make you a better version of you.

    Tomorrow always brings the opportunity to start afresh. Thus tidying over the weather is in everyone’s best interest, especially yours to make the gains both tangible as well as intangible.

  • Husbands, keep staring at your wife!

    In the midst of the work life balance debate sparked by the management of a leading Indian conglomerate, I would like to flip the narrative from the lens of a wife. The wife who lovingly waits for her husband to be back from a long tiring day of work (and the commute most undertake to reach their place of work on a daily basis) and spend quality time with her. She’s been busy managing the home and family single handedly.

    The wife who is equally burnt out after her day of work (and related commute). She battled the first shift of paid work and is now in her second shift of unpaid work tending to the home and family.

    In all probability, the wife (or girlfriend) is your companion for longer than your employer is going to be. So go ahead and invest time (and diamonds) in your better half. She is your pillar of strength, the source of constant warmth, the consistent cheerleader who doesn’t bat an eyelid being critical.