Extramarital affairs

Extramarital affairs- this word always seems to be existing in serial or filmy plots. Though in today’s world we still come across these affairs but when I was in school this was a taboo topic. These affairs were always associated with foreign or high page 3 society.
This is about the time when I was in class 6th.I didn’t have any common school and home friend, I mean none of my friends stayed close to my house. However, by chance once I met my classmate-“A” in my lane and after that we started going to each other’s place discussing the school stuff. “A” was a very simple, overly decent, polite girl. With time my visits to her place increased as she just had her younger brother and mother at home. In school we didn’t use to spend much time together but I was a regular visitor at her home or rather I was mostly the only visitor. I used to chat with her mother a lot who would guide us at times. She was an educated lady, who had resigned from the post of lecturer after her marriage. A’s father was posted in a distant village and because of their studies they were living here with her mother in a rented house. She told me that her grandmother stays with her father. I used to think that may be her mother and grandmother didn’t get along with each other that’s why they were living apart. I never saw her grandmother and even her father rarely. In the time span of class 6th to 12th, I saw her father just 2-3 times. “A” was in a rented apartment and they had very few furniture just the basic things. Her father was a doctor and sometimes it would strike me that they live a very simple life as compared to their social status. Her mother was always clad in poor quality cotton sarees, I never saw “A” wearing any fancy clothes. Still we were always so involved in school gossips and work that I never suspected anything. After 12th, I moved to a different college and we stayed in touch for sometime and eventually we lost contact.

After my marriage, I met someone from the same village where A’s father was posted. He told me that her father has an affair with a nurse. And the latest is that her mother died because of kidney failure and the nurse has now even come to their house. “A” did her MBA but she is suffering from memory loss. I feel that may be that nurse might be putting something in her food who knows. It would have been better if they could have married her and after that continued with their illicit relationship.

This was so shocking for me cos I have seen A’s family very closely. If I recall our conversation about her father, she always spoke highly about her father. I don’t know why she never talked about all these thing. May be it is very difficult to say bad things about someone so near to you. May be you cannot trust anyone once you are betrayed by someone so dear. Maybe you are forced to put a false face cos you are ashamed about him.
Extramarital affairs- now is not anything restricted to serials or film plots but are much more complicated as compared to what is shown in
reel life.