It was 1997 . I was upset with circumstances i encountered during my early marriage years .
We both were drawn to situations which effected our relationship negatively .And this was only because we were living in a JOINT family system .
My mother in law had (has till now even) a complicated psyche . She consistently created problems for me and most of family was with her because she had strong hold on whole family members .
This difficult situation raised problems between me and hubby and in spite of all the love we had for each other there were misunderstandings and fights between us .
Now i realize that i was more responsible for such conditions because my anger worked like exhaust fan for all the frustration i got from in laws during whole day .
For hubby it was hard to listen complains at mostly wrong times when he needed relaxation . His response made me more angry and our warm wars changed slowly into cold wars which are more dangerous because they lack dialogue which is BASE for all solutions .
Long story short my mom asked me to come and stay with her and forced hubby to take transfer in his job position and join us in Islamabad to live peacefully .
Hubby promised my mom that he will try his best though it is impossible to take transfer from one province to another .
Government servants are allowed to transfer only within province .He said he will leave the job and come to live with us .And for living he will do some private job (which could pay half than first one) until he gets any govt job .
We knew that life will be hard in big city with as less earning but we were ready to do this for the sake of PEACE OF MIND . I was mostly worried about my first child who was witnessing disturbing environment because of the ignorant behaviour of my in laws .
I wanted him to be an ideal man with strong character , beautiful nature and high I.Q which was not possible in such messy situations.
So i went to stay with my mother who was living in Islamabad in rented house and my younger sister was doing her first semi govt job with reasonable salary .
Islamabad city park ,it was evening though but camera was weak to catch dim serene light , shot was taken by hubby who visited us after each two month .
Same day ,same time , My son clicked before his father completed his instruction as behind him was edge of curving walk path in the park
I was only inter passed (12 grades) then . First of all i took admission for bachelors in virtual university where i was not bound to attend regular classes .I had to prepare for the exams by on my own . I was happy because studying further was my dream !
My eldest son's first speech in school ,this was his first school here in khairpur city
His first prize for best performance in games either!
khairpur city (school) where we are living now )
Game in which was asked to eat this sweet while hands tied on back !
Along With my own studies i put also my eldest son in one of the best school in the capital city which was quite expensive though but hubby was sending us monthly fine amount of money to deal with all personal expenditures .
I started to search private job in newspaper which were in abundance in capital city . I selected many options ,went for interview but most of the time did not find the place or people suitable for me.
After quite daily effort finally i choose one job. It was a matrimonial office . It was not a big office .There were only 3 girls ,one on reception , other who was responsible to look after and serve the parents who used to come there looking for best match to their young kids .
My job was to counsel the both parties show them the files belong to candidates and arrange their meeting under my supervision .
Salary was not as bad but i found it easy than others .Office was quite away (almost 45 minutes drive) but still i was comfortable because it was giving me chance to deal with various people and listen their demands and desires which sounded interesting.
I did this job for two months and got salary on time .Three middle aged men who were my boss collected every day's fees before i leave . Until then i did not know that those men were not originally from Islamabad but came from Lahore to saet this business here . It came to my knowledge by chance .
to be continued ...