expectation

When does the newlywed bliss wear off? I wouldn’t know personally. All I do know is that when a woman walks into an institution around which there has been such a hype built from birth (we’ve all been there, it is the rare Pakistani household in which there has not been jokes of marriage at every opportunity), there is an overinflation of expectations.

As the days go by, they slowly deflate to a reasonable size, and then deflate some more because men are really rather silly and we need to make room for a lot of silliness before we can accept them as partners.

I suppose what I’m saying is, expect to have great expectations and expect to have them chopped down slowly as you adjust to normal life. The grand gesture is not always coming, nor is it is always a fairy tale. Sometimes it’s just two people trying to adjust to each other and dig out a way of life.