Human relationship is such a paradox. While on the one hand you are expected to have this harmonious relation with your spouse on the other hand almost everybody who has been in a meaningful and “alive” relationship, swears by the importance of occasional fights and arguments from time to time.

According to Aruna, “they are the spark factors in a relationship. In fact, I think making up after a fight is not just romantic but it also one occasion that helps to futher cement the bonding between two partners.” Most others I spoke to seemed to have the same view. But, you need to look out for the frequency of  occurrence of the fights and also the nature of intensity. There is no better way to explain this than the old saying; too much of anything is bad.

Think of the world as your oasis. The world conspires for honeymooners. Every country in the world has options for the tight budgeted as well as the deep pocketed. In terms of popularity, the current top 5 honeymoon destinations are:

Hawaii
Mexico
Jamaica
Tahiti
Bermuda

It seems like almost everyone prefers the beach to the mountains. Also, the sun seems popular! (Why am I not surprised? I am a sun girl myself) If you want to idiot-proof your honeymoon and choose one of these five options

We have all heard of big celebrity weddings where the invitations are delivered to select invitees accompanied by rich gifts. We all remember some weddings we have attended only because of the invitations that were sent for them. Invitations are important aspects of a wedding, and a fair amount of heartburn goes into the perfect motif, material, wording, etc. for a good wedding invitation.

The good news is that we are now in the 21st century where we not only have a phenomenal choice of papers and styles for invitations, but also have the choice of sending breezy e mail invites to our particular friends and intimates. Today’s environment gives us the freedom to explore our own way in calling the people we want. However, we still need to give a thought to what we are saying and how we are saying it.

Not all promising introductions lead to beautiful relationships. Sometimes the search to connect with Mr. or Ms. Right can lead us to these not so great situations…

When Alka, wanting to make a good impression, spent a whole lunch hour telling rude ‘sardar’ jokes to her intriguingly named colleague Kalyan, she was horrified to discover that his whole family were Sikhs…

When a bee stung Aloysius at the exact same spot on the neck where his girlfriend had nuzzled him the night before, and he developed a huge swelling, she thought he had developed an allergy to her…

The young woman showed no visible tears, yet, the pain was only too apparent in her large brown eyes. While she had come the previous year for a Tarot reading to tell her about the future of her relationship with someone she loved, this time she was before me because she had discovered that her boyfriend had been married for nine long months – had got hitched up to someone else after meeting her, in fact, and neglected to tell her so. A chance SMS to her boyfriend one day had resulted in his wife calling her back. The nastiest shock of discovering that she even existed had been eclipsed by the humiliation of hearing her advice to ‘stay away’ from her husband.