Relationships: Sweet N Sour

Thank you, dear @SpringB, For this comment.

Tom, Jerry and Bluto- These can't live with each other and can't live without each other! The characters in the story interchange their positions according to the circumstances. Ultimately, every one of them silently/stealthily competes with each other for one-upmanship. Surprisingly, this quest is common in most families! Every day is a new beginning.

 

Thank you, dear Adharv, it always feels good to receive your encouraging feedback.

Dear, at the core almost all of us are like that only (basic human nature), otherwise, do you think there would be so many inter-personal issues? When a dil complains, we think it is always mil's fault. When a mil feels ignored/neglected, she complains and we sympathise with her and ditto between the husband and wife also. We go with the one who cries forgetting that it is a one-sided version of the truth! Often we ignore the other side of the truth and our sympathies are ultimately with the character we identify ourselves with! So our unconscious judgements are always biased. (My observation)

If possible watch this Hindi movie, Ek Ruka Hua Faisla. This movie by Basu Chatterjee clearly shows how our prejudices influence our POVs and decisions.

Didn't he establish his one-upmanship in the end? He too ensured to settle scores!

 

Thanks for your comments, dear Rihana.

I agree with you partly. Yes, when the mother and wife are at war, his position becomes really awkward. Some time ago, I met an MCP relative who openly said that he follows the 'divide and rule policy' at home so that both his mother and wife are on their toes to impress him and he gets the best of treatment. He continues to be their cynosure!

Most Indian men never grow up even after they themselves become grandfathers. They are often so well protected by their possessive parents and the social settings that a wife has to step up her services and defences a lot to compete with his parents and get him onto her side of the battlefield. Our Relationship forum has such stories every day.

And Pregnancy remains such a hot topic, unbelievable! Everyone keenly keeps a track of her periods and loss or gain of her weight from day one! It is as if there is a prize for the one who discovers her pregnancy first; right from the immediate family to the neighbourhood and the office colleagues. God bless our Indian mentality; forever they are ready to scream, "Badhai ho" and then ask for laddoo!

 

Thank you, dear peddadas, for your cryptic comment. Looks like you grasped the core of the story.

 

If you start self-analysis, sleep will elude you till it is time for Good morning!