Diner Sheshe(20.02.2019) -The Asian Age

"I met Ed at a bar -- when he approached me, I made a dirty joke which surprised him! He was leaving for Africa, but his flight was delayed by 24 hours so he asked me out to dinner the next evening and something about him just felt right, so I said yes!

The dinner wasn't awkward at all -- it was nice to have someone who was so invested in me. I was someone who was always focused on my career. Coming from a small town in Mussoorie, it was a shock to my family that I wasn't interested in getting married even though I was already 42. I was happy being single and becoming a successful doctor and a businesswoman.

When Ed left, we kept in touch. He asked me about my day, about my work and whether or not I ate… considering I was always an older sister, I was never actually cared for in the way he took care of me. It felt nice. After he came back, we started seeing each other and within 2 months, we decided to move-in together. I fell for his classy personality, while he fell for my honesty. My choices met with a lot of backlash from people. They asked me 'Didn't you find anyone younger?' or 'Why are you with someone who's divorced?'

People in my family weren't happy about our relationship when I took Ed home, but they saw how happy he made me, so they accepted him with open arms. We were on the same page about our values… we didn't want kids, we didn't see the 'need' to get married, but eventually we did only to make everything easier legally.

On the day of my wedding, my mother yelled at me because I was going to wear jeans and a T-shirt to court. I didn't even have a ring! I actually rushed and bought one from Archies at the last minute! And that's how we got married -- with 2 hundred Rupee rings in court. It was my dream wedding!

I found him when I was 42 -- a man 26 years older than me from Holland, but it's like we've been in love all our lives and every force in the Universe came together to unite us."

Humans of Bombay, Fb