Physical intimacy and premarital sex have become mainstream over the past few decades, giving rise to live-in and open relationships. The concept of ‘live-in relationships’ has received noticeable approval from the youth as well as from a small broad-minded section of the generation preceding ours.
Even a decade back a live-in couple in the neighbourhood would make the neighbours curious but now it is more accepted. Indian youth are also more open to test the waters in a relationship through living in first, before committing marriage.
Living together is an experience that can bring out a lot of things about your partner that a normal relationship would not. A live in relationship can help you decide whether you want to get married or not.
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You don’t really know a person unless you have walked in their shoes? Well, in this ‘modern’ era, you don’t really know a person unless you have lived with them. In India, living-in is on the rise but is still cringed from. For a woman to have a domestic partnership with a man is something
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(As told to Shahnaaz Khan) What defines a marriage? Love, partnership, sex, romance, monogamy, procreation. We can find plenty of features, but which of these is the most quintessential? The make or break factor. For most people, it would be monogamy or perhaps love. Are those mutually exclusive? I didn’t think so till my over
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As told to Saurabh Dalal It all started on a lazy Saturday evening. Ghazals from my Jagjit Singh playlist streamed out of the living room speakers as I poured a glass of red wine each for both of us. We had nowhere to go this evening. It seemed like ages since we had spent a
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An open relationship may seem cool but not every one has the nerves to handle it
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(As told to Stotropama Mukherjee) Open relationships come with their own challenges. The rules are neither set in stone nor are they the same for every couple. Moreover, the relationship equations change and modify because of a number of factors. Age and maturity, of the relationship and the people involved, play an important role in
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For those of you who are catching up with this series midway, I suggest reading the first part. My wife Shweta and I are a modern Indian working couple. We love each other and are high on life. We planned a vacation to Ooty with a couple, close friend Sharad and his wife Swati. Unknown to
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“One can be in a happy marriage, and still have relationships outside it,” Rishi said emphatically. He was visiting, and as we snacked and chatted in my living room, he told me the first open marriage stories I had ever heard in my life. “But isn’t a marriage supposed to be sacrosanct?” I stared at
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(As told to Saurabh Dalal) For those of you who are catching up with this series here, my wife Shweta and I are a working couple. We embarked on a new adventure with a close friend couple by going on a weekend vacation to Ooty with them, where we swapped partners for the night. However,
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(As told to Saurabh Dalal) For those of you who are catching up with this series here, I suggest reading the first and the second part before you read this. My wife Shweta and I are a working couple. We embarked on a new adventure with Sharad and his wife Swati, a couple with whom
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