Two is company Three is a crowd

According to Anuj - 6th Annual Progress Report.

P.S. - Its controversial! I thought "Aaj kuch toofani karte hai".😉

After a couple of years of our marriage the idea of being just a couple was not very much acceptable. Our families and friends started asking the usual question. When are we becoming a family? Anuj and I had discussed this sometime after our marriage and were of the same view. So they were shocked when we gave them the NOT so "Good News".

As much as everyone tried to make us look at all the things we will be missing in our life, we, shamelessly and unapologetically kept looking at the positives. At least in our mind (obviously), still there are more positives than negatives. We do not have to share our time and attention with anyone. We do not have to wait for someone to go to sleep to watch all the 18+ series and movies. We do not have to leave bed if we dont want to. We do not have to save an extra huge chunk of money. We do not have to be extra-responsible. We do not have to give a different consideration before planning a vacation. And the best part, we do not have to be the grown-up.

Socially conformed term for a family of two is "Couple". But we are a family. Maybe not by the dictionary definition because it still says - Family is a group consisting of one or two parents and their children. Well, does that mean that having both the parents is optional but having children is an absolute necessity to be called a family? I disagree.

People with socially conformed size and constituents of family would tell us that we are missing the most beautiful part of our life. In our mind, however, we are living it already. We are each other's family. We can't wait to get back home to see each other. We are elated and refreshed to see each other smile after a long and hard day. We are responsible for each other. We have a purpose in life- To live and love each other. We do not feel anything amiss in our lives. We are fulfilled, content, complete and happy. We stick together without anyone else binding us together.

Our only hope is time. With time people have opened up to the idea of nuclear family, love marriage, dating, live-in, happily unmarried and also same sex partner. Hoping, being childless (Oops! I mean) childfree by choice, will be fine too.

I guess someone must have had us in mind when he said "Two is company, Three is a crowd".
Dink, dink 😉😉.