My Dear Shonu,
You just cannot imagine how very touched I was to receive that pleasant surprise of the beautiful Valentine Card and the very thoughtful gift of the enchanting Book "the gift of love" by Sophie Bevan, on my bed-side table...
"Your Love is the best part of my Life."
your card said to me...
I agree too, my dear...and it applies the same to you...without your love and care, I would have been in the doldrums by now...
Come to think of it, a couple of years back, when I was an unmarried lass...and we used to have this debate of Arranged Marriage Vs Love Marriage in our friend-circle...many of my friends would always support the success of Love Marriages as opposed to Arranged Marriages...
I was a bit queer, because I couldn't support any, so I was kind of Neutral...as I felt that all marriages are gambles with a risk...they succeed or they fail...or they just remain dysfunctional and get stale over a period of time, as the partners get used to each other's non-chalance and stay put together, even if they don't vibe well...for the sake of kids and the societal stigmas attached to a failed marriage...
In love marriages, how much of a person you really get to know...till you start living together day in and day out...because courtship and dating usually involve good clothes, good food, raunchy spots and passions running high, and lots of "feel good" HIs and BYEs in those clandestine meetings of love-lorn couples...
So, I used to feel that it's true in arranged marriages, you hardly know your partner...yet in love marriages too, esp. in India (where you don't get to live with each other before matrimony), there is only the "rosy side" of a relationship you get to see on dates and romantic nights out...and even I had heard of so many love-birds falling apart after matrimony...when the reality of marriage hits them hard...and they come down to earth, from their lofty mountains of desired dreams...
and so I always felt that Arranged or Love...Marriage is a Gamble...Arranged Marriages fail...so do Love Marriages too...
and to this day, I feel that You have been a blessing from God...for you were a stranger to me before our marriage, because our partnership was arranged...and every day, I find myself more and more reasons...to keep loving you boundlessly...
and so, My Love...after all the philosophising above...let me say to you my heart-felt desire...
wish it was your holiday today...wish there was someone to take care of our kids...so that I could make the most of this beautiful, lovable Valentine's Day with you...and carry on giving you those lusty smooches I gave you in the morning...and also lovingly nudge your ***** as I often do...and caress you gently down there...
for You always make me feel so wholesome and privileged being your precious wife...Truly So, because You are the Best Thing That has ever Happened to me in my Life...You've made me a Mother...and You give me a Reason to live and survive...even when I'm at my very worst and feel that life is not worth living...
So I Love You, when you are smelling fresh of body gel, and shaving gel, and hair gel...and I do love you all the same when I see my Shonu with a blocked nose, smelly pits and that baashi morning feeling of a smelly mouth and chokhe bichuti..!
So here's a Naughty Wife's Valentine Letter for her "Shonu-Monu" Husband..!
Please try to come early this evening, because I need to hug you tight and cosy...and once again, Thanks Very Much...for those lovely little surprises of today...You always bowl me over with your choice of gifts..!
Remember...You gave me that beautiful Love Poetry Book and that very charming, beaded crystal page-marker on our last year's Valentine's Day..! I've preserved it lovingly in my drawer...
So that's a long "love-letter" for now..!
ever gratefully yours,
~ Aparna
