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End...For a New Beginning

It has been more than a decade that Priya is married to Rajesh, but still, the mention of her mother in laws name brings in a mix feeling Happy, scared, anxious, angry, nervous, irritated and any other feeling you can think about. Srinivas and Lakshmi had an elder daughter Sreeja and a son Rajesh, Sreeja was married to a doctor and had migrated to the USA long back, she would visit them once in three years, stay in her in-law's house, visit them for a week and would leave, Her interference in the family was minimal. She would call her parents once in a week and speak to all of them. Rajesh was a software Engineer, Priya also has finished her MS. but was on a sabbatical after marriage, she wanted to get used to the new life before moving on to a professional career, which she had discussed with Rajesh before marriage and moreover she had moved from a different city to Hyderabad. Initially, Lakshmi is happy to see her son married. But after a while, insecurity creeps in. She is...

Rebeca

Rebeca was considered to be a tough lady, never seen as a usual lady next door; She was a single mother from a small town. As usual as a single mother, she went through a lot of difficult situations. As long as her parents were around, she had some moral support, but after she lost them it was a lonely struggle. The first and probably the most difficult part of being a single mom was that people judged her without even trying to figure out, how She got into this situation. She found out too late that She could have fallen for a frog, who pretended to be prince charming and hence decided to go separate ways with her husband. Aside from the fact that she was the one working to bring food to the table, she also has to do all the house chores after work, because all her lazy husband ever did was eat and sleep all day, besides physical abuse and alcoholism. Personally, for her, the most difficult part was to explain it to her children when they asked “why other kids’ dads are with the...