Nivedita Parihar Upendra Pratap Singh

Radhika Unmukt Gera

In early 2018, I had gotten out of a 6-year-long toxic relationship and was planning on making the most of my last semester in law school. It ruined my mental health and I had barely made any friends in college! So, I decided to live life to the fullest in the very last month left of college. Violà! I met a guy who was TWO years my junior and we soon started dating. He was initially kind and sweet, and I thought I deserved it after such a harrowing experience. He made me meet his friends and family, something which my ex had not done in six years. I was happy. Soon, things took a bad turn when he started becoming too distant, rude, and would do and say things knowing that it would hurt me. I was taken by surprise, and that relationship ended within 9 months. I was heartbroken and I decided not to date anyone till I worked on myself. Fast forward to 2020, the pandemic had taken over our lives. I was alone, single and I was battling a terrible workplace that I wanted to get out of. The job I wanted was difficult to get and I could only secure it if I had the right connections. I spent months trying to get the job and tried as hard as I could. That's when my ex (yes, that's right, the one from law school) asked me to contact his batchmate from law school who had the same job and could guide me! I had met this friend before in 2018, but he had a girlfriend back then (I did find him a little cute). He and I had had one conversation at a party with just the two of us, and then we never interacted again. Till December 2020. He was single this time, and he very graciously decided to help me out. We talked on and off for a while, and he became a friend. I still found him cute, but he was very reserved and I was sure he did not feel the same way. In August 2021, I finally got the job I wanted and he was one of the first people I informed! Soon, Courts started functioning physically, and we would meet for 5-minute coffee breaks on some days. It was surprising for me because I am not very social. When I told my ex that I was meeting this guy for coffee breaks, he told me that he might have feelings for me because he would never meet anyone for coffee before I came along! I didn't believe him though. In December 2021, Court vacations had started, and he and I, with another friend, went out for drinks where he talked about HIS ex. I was sad because I was sure he still liked her. So, I started distancing myself from him. It was very hot and cold with him for a few months (we even had a small tiff in the middle when we didn't talk for a couple of weeks). In March 2022, I had applied for colleges outside India and I got my first rejection. I was very upset. He specially got me a book, stationary, and wrote a note for me saying that he had full faith in me. That's when I decided to tell him that I liked him, even if it meant getting rejected. To my surprise, he said that he liked me too! We have been together since and I have never been happier. :)

Kirti goel Piyush Rajgarhia

Our love story has a very filmy start to it. We first met in 2018. Though it was a meeting for an arrange marriage proposal, but the setting was damn romantic with a cool breeze and clear sea all around us. Honestly speaking, we didn't like each other in the first meeting as we were quite different from each other and were not on the same page in terms of our expectations from each other. There was something which made us stay connected and with time we kind of started liking each other. Despite of living in different cities, we managed to meet quite a few times which led to few funny and at the same time, stressful moments since we used to hide those meetings from our families, the landlord and the househelp.😅 We dated for 4 years and no doubt, there were many ups and downs throughout those years primarily due to the long-distance relationship since I was living in Delhi and he was based out of Mumbai and also due to our personality differences. I am more of an emotional being and he has a practical approach to things. We used to travel to different places together and spend as much time as possible with each other to bridge that gap which helped also. We have travelled to all kind of places - hill stations, trekking, South India, camping in the North, we did rafting in Rishikesh etc. There are some similarities also between us - we both have a taste for simple stuff be it food, lifestyle, material possessions etc. We both are fitness freaks and love yoga and meditation. But if someone would have weighed our similarities to differences, the latter would have been dominant, and lockdown didn't help either since we were not talking much all those months. But there was something which held us together all these years. The connection was so strong that we always used to end up up calling out the same words at same time which happens even now and very often. We realized that despite all those differences, we are made for each other. We changed our approach; we forgot all the limitations and shortcomings in each other and looked only at the positives. It was in May 2022 when he said that he was ready for marriage and then we wasted no time. We got married on July 6, 2022, went for our Honeymoon for a 2-week trip to Europe which got us even closer. Now, we are living happily in Mumbai and having only each other to look after and be looked after.

Majeti Harish Priyanka

Like a typical Bollywood movie style when the guy falls in love with the girl, the pair is surrounded by rain, music and flowers.... Our story is also similar to this kind. We were welcomed with the nature whenever we met like the first meeting was in a drizzling rain and then in our next meet we were unexpectedly welcomed by way of a candle light dinner as the electricity was not there ...the first time I was happy that about that !!! It turned out to be our memorable date for us and then our journey begin .... followed by our marriage. Its been now 9 years that we are married and blessed with a beautiful girl who made our lives complete.... Every anniversary we travel and cherish the day this december our 10th anniversary so hoping that we will be welcomed in Vietnam "Xin chào Vietnam" :)