Rekha

Friends in married life

Chapter 1

Our First Exhibition In Front of Best Friends

We were in our 16th year of marriage. I am married to Jay and we have a wonderful kid. However, our marriage was at the verge of collapse. Our intimate relationship has not taken place for almost 19 months. Jay is great husband who helps me with all kinds of house chores, etc. I like all that because after caring for the kid during the day, any help is great for me.

Jay attempts to come close to me intimately, somehow I do not feel the need specially that late in the night. Frankly, I do get some excitement during the daytime when Jay is at work. By the time he is home all that excitement vanishes as I get tired kid care and cooking etc. The stress between us has been growing for so many months and we were growing apart.

This Christmas holiday, my childhood friend Nishi along with her husband Rohit and a kid (same age as my kid) came to visit us. They drove for four hours to arrive at our place to stay with us for three or four days. It was a great feeling to see Nishi after few years. We have been in contact via phone, email etc. regularly, so we knew lot of things about each other anyways. Rohit and Jay have met before many times in last 15 years of our married life.

Around 9 PM we put kids to bed and sat on the sofa to relax. Jay and Rohit started to discuss sports and politics. Nishi and I started to comment about each other.

Nishi commented, “Why are you looking so dull, looks like Jay is not taking good care of you.”

I said, “No, I am fine. You certainly look bright. What’s the secret? I get so tired.”

Nishi said, “No secret, we just figured out that even if we are tired, doing crazy things make life happier. Even if I am in mood, I go along with Rohit and his desire and now slowly I have started enjoying it again. My days go fast now.”

“Right Rohit”, exclaimed Nishi.