A unforgettable honeymoon

People always say it takes about one or two year to adjust to some extent with your life partner. I always accepted that as a funny remark thinking it may not be applicable to a self-proclaimed stud in relationships like me. I have been proved wrong and foolish for having assumed so.

As my married life started from the request of changing the honeymoon programme, I noticed first stupidity of Pratibha who did not reveal about problem of monthly periods to me. The very day when I had finalised our honeymoon schedule in Kashmir, with the help and obligation of a very senior journalist, I had to cancel it. It was quite embarrassing for me to first ask for its cancellation and then on having joined my office the third day of marriage. I had no option as I could afford to waste my hard-earned offs for no reason by staying back at home.

I faced a lot of remarks. But my wife never realised how embarrassing time I had to face at office among girls and senior journalists and especially the boss.

She refused to make love as she had vowed to first visit the Vaishno Devi shrine and only after that do it properly. I somehow tried my best not to do it fully. It was decided that after visiting the holy shrine we will start our honeymoon from Dharamshala cottage. It's a scenic place and with the monsoon season the surrounding turned pleasand beyond expression. The breeze, the fog, the green cover of the giant mountains around our huge cottage added to the pleasant mood and most awaited phase of life.

But on the very evening we reached the cottage in Dharamshala, she turned out to be a deaf person. She started making all sorts of silly reasons for not beigg able to listen to my words. She feigned being over occupied in thoughts to listen carefully what I was saying. Initially I felt she was not listenly to me purposefully. Later, I felt she couldnot listen. I asked her, she said nothing serious. But all the time she would listen only when I would shout.

There was an incident which proved that I had genuine doubts. A room boy came to ask for the order for dinner. Ours was a small room, barely 10 by 8. There was only one bed and an almirah in it. I was sitting on the bed and she was doing something in the almirah. The roomboy came and he was standing in our middle. She was barely five feet away from me. I called her once, twice and thrice. The last time my voice was a little louder. She turned around and gestured whether I was calling her!! I was shocked so was the room boy who was barely two feet behind her and faced towards me. I was shocked but I smile and let him go.

Then I asked her about the reality. She said there is no truth in her deafness. It was simply some problem 'perhaps' . I believed her foolishly on the pretext that the first thing she would do is to visit a doctor in Delhi on return. She agreed. But my mood had spoiled as I was in full doubt that I had been perhaps ditched by her family.

On the very next morning, we tried to make love. She responded as if I was about to kill her. She feared pain which hadn't yet occurred. It was the pain of pleasure. I was irritated. It continued the whole time during our entire honeymoon. She didn't let me in properly and kept acting fearful of that same pain, perhaps every girl on this planet waits for to begin her married life with.

I decided to enjoy the trip as a pleasant visit instead of love making trip. I turned the nature of our visit to various places like Dharamshala, the Dalai Lama Temple , One nearby Shiva temple, Chamunda Devi temple in Himachal, the Golden Temple in Amritsar and return journey. She was delighted to see that I was taking her to every place safely and without much discomfort, if not with the best possible comforts. I think she had had a dream of travelling by plane to Jammu for Vaishno Devi and travelling by air conditioned private cabs at rest of the places. I took her by local transportaion to let the enjoy the actual feel of local places. I was disappointed to see, she had no charm for that just like I had. She just kept complaing for air conditioner bus or luxury every now and then and I pulled her at times for that.

We returned to Delhi having completed an overall nice honeymoon trip. She looked happy having visited so many places as a surprise from a person of my limited means. She was impressed with my links which she least expected from me. All she knew that only her family could make her trips pleasant. Throughout the honeymoon trip, she kept briefing her mother about our every movement. I didn't object and took it in good spirit. Anyways after about a week, we were finally back to Malka Ganj, our place in Delhi.

To avoid spoiling the moment I somehow tried to forget that I have a suspected deaf person in my life. Any how my worst fears came true, when she once admitted naively in my study room she deserves a compliment for having let her husband know such a big hidden thing so easily! (Arrey dekha kitni smart hun main ...itni badi kaan se na sunne ki baat kaise coney bhi kar di aur chupa bhi li!!).

I was stunned to hear her disclose all this before me so disgustingly boastfully. Little did she realise, she lost my trust forever by betraying me.

Regards

Chaudhary Sandeep Datta