A Season for Love

An Indian Arranged Marriage Short Story

De: Poojitha K.

Narrado por: Virtual Voice

When a wife fails to share her heart's desire with her husband, and when a husband fails to notice the sorrow in his wife's eyes, is the failure of their marriage inevitable?
Or can love revive their withering bond and bring it back to life?

If the heart so desires, is it ever too late to understand one's life partner?
Or are some people simply not made for each other?

Dhara and Akash, a couple brought together by an arranged marriage, seem to have a happy life.
But beneath the smooth surface of their relationship are tiny cracks, cracks that one of them chooses to ignore, while the other remains oblivious.
When those fissures drive a wedge between them, will it spell the end of their two-year marriage? Or will it be the wake-up call that serves to bridge the distance that separates them?

'A Season for Love' is a simple and sweet tale of a couple who truly discover each other two years into their married life.
Each chapter is named after a season to represent the path that their story takes. When their relationship stumbles and becomes as bare as autumn, suffocation sets upon them as if a hot, sweltering summer is choking the life out of their marriage. But when winter comes around, will it freeze their hearts, or will monsoon bring about the change they desire? And will spring ever arrive, bringing with it the hope they desperately need?

'I haven't given up on you. I can never give up on you.' – Dhara
'The good, the bad, the ugly; nothing will make me turn away from you.' – Akash

A bond beyond words, a love beyond reason,
The ties that bind us are unseen.
A raging tempest, or a prickly path of thorns,
You make it all soft and serene.
Was it written in the stars?
Or was it designed by fate?
Because you're the best part of me,
My true partner and soulmate.
How magical it is,
The power of a promise!
What mystery do they hold,
The vows that made us man and wife?
For strangers we may have been,
But brought together in this life,
As two halves of a whole,
Two bodies, but one soul.

Note: This is a standalone romance short story set in India.