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"You don't marry one person; you marry three: the person you think they are, the person they are, and the person they are going to become as a result of being married to you." -Richard Needham

Valentine’s Day just went on by last month and I thought I’d scribble about an ongoing love story for this post. This story is not made up, the characters are real and personally, I do not know if it resembles anyone else’ real life story. This is my story; the story of me and my wife Anu, this is our story.

2012 was an important year for both me and Anu as we completed five years into our marriage. Five years really seems like a short time. We both still remember the day we got married. We were madly in love then and we are still madly in love with each other.

2012 had an almost perfect ending till the news of the Delhi rape incident shook the entire nation. For the parents and close kin of the girl, it will be something they will never forget for the rest of their lives.

The news was all over, in every regional channel, the English Channels, news papers, even on normal talk shows, and for a while it seemed like it was the only thing to talk about. Even social media was buzzing with remarks from all over; Facebook, Twitter and even many bloggers wrote about the cruelty of that incident.

Many addressed issues as how to prevent this kind of a crime from happening again. A large ratio were for cruel punishment so that fear would creep in to the hearts of the rapists. Again some were for self defense. The government even set up an emergency number for the women to call in any case.

The heights were the discussions on one of the talk shows. They were talking about actually having a red light area in every district. So that men could go there for their needs and as a result reduce the number of rapes. (Can you imagine that?!)

People had spoken out and written on what the women ought to do. And in perspective, while what all of them said stands true; I believe in order to see a true change it also has to do with the hearts of men. While this still remains a sensitive issue, I want to write this post to all the men, myself included!