The 16th ....
And we did it ! 16 years under the same roof and an extra 2 months of long distance courtship ...I can definitely vouch that I coudn't get a better person to live rest of my life with. We both had very different upbringing - While Sree was part of joint family growing up in a country side not far from where i was brought up in a completely nuclear and urban way. His dad was the strictest whereas my dad gave me all the freedom ( within clear boundaries) . My achan never even once hinted that girls are any less than boys, in fact he always stood by me. Recollecting one of the first conversations after wedding about money revealed that Sree hadn't spent much from his salary and was living on income from Share trading. Quite impressive ! but when he said we start from 0 and gave all the savings to his dad, i didn't have any complaints. We started from Rs 0 in 2004. We both have few things in common -one of them being cautious about spending money and saving for tough times. I...