Today, December 13th of 2012 marks 8 years of my married life!!!!!
Days just flew by, never made me realize we have spent such a long time with one another, it seems like yesterday when we first saw each other and how fate was in our favor to make that turn into a togetherness of lifetime!!!!!
I cherish our courtship days when we had so much to share, spent hours speaking and thereby getting to know each other so well. Seemed like nothing else really mattered, you occupied a special place in my heart, and makes me wonder ‘How lucky I Am”.
“Love is the condition in which the happiness of another person is essential to your own.”Quoted by: Robert Heinlein
I can broadly divide these 8 years into two equal halves, the first four years were spent in lots of travels. We were in India when we got married back in 2004 and the first year we spent visiting lots of exotic places in the northern part of the country, among the foot of the himalayan mountains.
In 2006 we took the opportunity to migrate to the United States based on my job and have continued to stay back here since then. The first few years were tough when we missed our Indian family culture and social life, imagine coming over to a new country where you know none, with just 4 suitcases and setting up a brand new home here…it does take a lot of compromises.
In all those tough and challenging times, we have fared well, Sush has been very supportive to me and understanding the needs of my job and family, thus maintaining a perfect balanced work-life relationship. She started following back with her career initiatives once we got a little relaxed in the new environment and since then, she has followed up with it religiously and built over her existing skill-sets.
We also explored several parts of the US during our pre-parenthood days and took every opportunity to go on vacation and visit new places. In the process we made new friends whom we still keep in touch with and here is where I lack and Sush makes up for it. If not for her, I wouldn’t have met half of my good friends today.
“You know you’re in love when you can’t fall asleep because reality is finally better than your dreams”.Quoted by: Dr Seuss
In 2008, we welcomed our daughter Neha into our lives and I fell in love for the second time in my life!!!!! To read more about our personal experiences during this most memorable times of our lives, do visit my older blog here -At Wits End. It has just 3 articles which was my first unsuccessful attempt at blogging, but every time I read them, it takes me back to those days and re-live those moments.
If I start writing about my daughter, I can go on endless, but this post is not about her, but about me and my wife and our lives together over the past 8 years. So I better keep on track here…
Here are 8 positive qualities of Sush that I admire and what makes her so special to me every day of my life.
1. Loving – She is full of love and I was enjoying the 100% of it being directed towards me until my daughter came around 
Now, we both (me and Neha) equally share the immense love and care that my wife has for us which she never ceases to show.
2. Beautiful – Just the word ‘beautiful’, enough said!!! She blew me off my feet the day I saw her and she somehow manages to do the same even now!!!!
3. Supportive - When I started out this blog, it was my wife who gave me continuous support and motivation to go for it and had complete faith in me. I started out by reading some of the well known blogs, and shared it with her, and she simply said, ‘if they can do it, so can you’!!!! That is what kept me going and I did start out with this blog and until today, i can say Sush is the only person who has read most of my articles here. I do have some faithful followers, but she is the one who corrects me whenever I go wrong in any post, thus I know she is always there as the final check-point.
4. Strong – Strong as in determined and focused towards her goal. If she sets out to achieve something, she makes sure she taps every avenue to make it happen. Having a strong minded personality has a very positive influence for the entire family and I hope my daughter picks it up as well from her.
5. Sensitive – She might be strong-willed, but at the same time I can see her shed tears for the needy and poor. She has a sensitive heart which goes out to help people, she doesn’t think twice before handing out a dollar to the homeless person at traffic signals.
6. Perfect – She has a tendency to be ‘perfect’ at everything she does and she also expects the same from everyone around her. So I cannot escape from being half-hearted and lazy and incomplete 
I think it helps people around her to realize and work towards being better at what we do.
7. Expressive – I lack at this, I do not express my thoughts out in words, somehow I keep them shut down in my mind or I come and rant here on my blog. Sush doesn’t miss a chance to express her feelings about everything and everyone. That does open up topics for us to discuss and exchange our views about the topic.
8. Appreciative – The best to the last of course, I have always admired this quality in her, being appreciative and building up her dear ones among friends. Sush genuinely compliments me and Neha every chance she gets in front of a crowd of friends and family. It makes me love her even more with every passing day.
“An anniversary is a time to celebrate the joys of today, the memories of yesterday, and the hopes of tomorrow. ” ~Author Unknown
Finally I want to add that “I am better because she is loving. I am better because she is graceful. I am better because she is giving. I am better because she is wise. I am better because she agreed to marry me 8 years ago and we have lead a wonderful life since then. Thanks for being there honey, Love you loads”
Praveen Rajarao is a Software Tech Lead and in his spare time blogs on his website –http://www.dailymorningcoffee.com and http://www.techivy.com. His topics range from blogging to technology to affiliate programs and making money online and how-to guides. Daily Morning Coffee is also accepting Guest Posts from Professional Bloggers at this time, take a look at “Write For DMC” page for more details on the same.
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What a beautiful tribute to Sush Praveen. She’s very lucky to have you and very brave to move to a new country and start fresh. I don’t know if I could do that but she sounds like she’s very supportive of you.
By the way, she’s very beautiful too you lucky guy!
Happy Anniversary and I wish you many more years of pure bliss!
~Adrienne
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Adrienne – yes, I am very lucky and I scored to have got her as my wife. She has been as supportive as ever and we have lead a wonderful life together.
Thanks for your wishes.
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Congrats on your anniversary. May God Bless you
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Thanks for your wishes Roopz. Have a good day ahead.
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Hey Praveen,
Happy Anniversary to the sweet couple
Wonderful indeed mate
You have a beautiful wife and there’s nothing to debate. Most importantly what I admire is the understanding between you two.
I think for every couple, understanding is what matters in first place. If you or your wife didn’t see life that way, this story could be different
You and I both know when we look around the World people have hard time in understanding each other, no?
That’s very lovely how you come up this post to admire your love and now I see another aspect of a Software Engineer
Really interesting how she did encourage you to stand on blogsphere. Very nice and you can be grateful for having ‘em all in your life. A happy family
I can relate to your story too, but now it’s not the time for it
I hope you wife loved seeing this post about her too
Cheers…
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Mayura – Thanks for stopping by and leaving your thoughts on this article of mine. I would of course love to hear more about your story when the “right time” comes
Yes, it is good sometimes to take a step back and look at what we have in life. We are so busy making our lives better and working towards our objectives that we fail to realize the actual happiness of all the things and people we already have around us. This post resonates the same feelings of mine when I closed my eyes and thought back about our 8 years together.
Glad you liked it and yes my wife loved the post as well. Have a wonderful weekend ahead.
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Awww…that’s really sweet…BTW one siggestion- the “share” bar at left of page is quite annoying and makes reading difficult. You may like to replace or re-position this somewhere else
Cheers!
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Happy Anniversary. Love to know about your wife and daughter. You both look nice in the pic. Wish you the best for future.
Thanks Siddhartha for your wishes and your comment on the pic. Have a good day ahead.
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Happy Anniversary Praveen and Sush!
Sorry for being a little late, but the wishes always do remain – don’t they
She IS beautiful and you ARE lucky indeed Praveen. I liked the way you penned your life’s journey here along with your better half, and am sure you are going to have many many more years of togetherness. Wishing you all the very best – always.
Thanks for sharing part of yourself with all of us.
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Harleena – Thanks for the wishes and it is never late with friends.
I am glad you liked the article and could get to know a little more about my personal life via this post. I just left a comment out at Carolyn’s that we are very lucky to have this blog as a part of our life, through which we can reach out to the world and tell our feelings and share our thoughts. It is such a wonderful medium for any person.
Hope you have a good weekend ahead.
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Happy Anniversary to you too Love!
I must admit that i was not able to read more than a line of this blog yesterday when you published it. I was just emotional and speechless. Well like you know I am definitely not good in expressing the same in writing.. you rock in that. I am very lucky to have you in my life! Well one thing that will never change as we grow older together and change as we age, I will always keep falling in love with you!
Sush – It is nice to see that we have what we desire in life, and the feelings are mutual.
As I have already mentioned in the post, thx for always being there by my side and supporting me in all the things that I do in life.
Yes of course, our love can only grow with each day and it will never change no matter what.
Loved to read your comment.
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Congratulations to both of u on completing 8 funfilled years of married life. You have expressed the journey of ur married life in the most lovable manner. I am sure Sush will love you more after reading this:)
Hey! Nice to see you guys on the blog. Congratulations on your anniversary. Wish you all the happiness in life.
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