Sweet Nothing

Romantic lines guaranteed to sway any woman

If you've ever felt lost for words to express how you feel, here's your own cupid prompter to get you started.

• I have to check for directions, coz I'm lost in your eyes.
• If I had to choose my life all over again, I would change one thing; I wouldn't want to waste so much time before I met you.
• Would you hold my hand? I think I'm falling...for you.
• If I'd told you I would move mountains and swim oceans for you, I wouldn't be exaggerating.
• Be mine forever. Forever is too short a time for us.
• I have twenty reasons why we should be together. The first is that I love you. The other nineteen are the same as the first.
• Has anyone ever told you how you can make grown men cry when you dress to kill?
• Every time time I look at you, I realise how lucky I am to have found the one person in the entire world meant for me. I could have spent my entire life searching for you and never found you. And that is the scariest thought in the world.
• You make me feel like the most important man in the world.

Disarming your in-laws

You can transform the traditional adversaries into friends and well-wishers. All you need is tact, straightforwardness and a pinch of healthy selfishness.

Ideally, your mother-in-law should be the person with whom you can laugh about how your husband loves to sleep long hours. Dealing with in-laws is tricky business most of the times, but if you learn to get past fake family togetherness, formality and innuendo, you could actually have your in-laws on your side.

Say No To Stereotypes

Leave that script behind at your parent's house. In-laws demons, me victim. You go in with presumed apprehension and they becomes defensive from day one. True, the mother-in-law is a person who can churn a million emotions in us (actually why, have you ever wondered?) yet, remember, even mothers-in-law come in all types and characters. To pattern a relationship on conditioning is to axe it from the beginning. First, make an effort to observe and understand her and then learn to deal with it. Don't let hostility be your coping tactic.

Your In-Laws Are Scared Too!

Even while a son's wedding is one of the happiest moments in any parents' life, this is also the time when they realise, with a certain sense of gloom, that their son is now someone else's. There is another woman in his life, who is obviously going to be the centre of his attention. Naturally, your in-laws have mixed emotions about you. You have usurped their place in their son's life, in some way. For your in-laws, your husband's marriage is also a milestone in their life in terms of their aging. Psychologists state that the unspoken emotions around the marriage of a child can make elder parents very vulnerable and hence on the defensive, even without provocation. This is perhaps the reason why many mothers-in-law don't allow their daughters-in-law inside the kitchen for a very long time. Because they don't want to lose control. And the kitchen, we all agree, is a control room in every house. Speak to your parents-in-law about their fears, tell them that you are a part of their family and not there to take their son away. Trust takes time but it won't come automatically, you have to bridge the distance yourself.