Nothing feels more exciting than living with the person you love for the rest of your life. Congratulations! You have recently married and took promises to hold and help each other through the marital journey to make “a happily ever after.” The initial days of the marriage are truly delightful filled with love, romance and gazing lovingly at each other but as one’s move forwards, a bride notices that there are certain things which are hard to manage and quite challenging as married life demands responsibilities and commitments to fulfill along with candlelight dinners, long drives, and movie dates.

Read the articles to have a sneak peak of the problems a bride face in the first year of “happily ever after” marriage.

• Less sleep durations

Indian people believe in waking up early from the bed paying no attention whether you have slept late or not due to tasks. It is one thing which mostly bride face in the first year of marriage unless they get habitual to new sleeping patterns. Before marriage, there is no time limit when you first open your eyes in the morning but as soon as you get hitched you have to wake till 6 am from the bed otherwise you will typecast as a bad bahu.

• Following new routine becomes necessity

Suddenly you notice a u-turn in your daily routine like the time you have for your close friends, parents and relatives disappears and taken place by dinners and becoming a part of occasions solemnizing at hubby’s relatives. You have to follow the whole new routine with the stress of maintaining the career and performing all the duties of typical bahus.

• You are never alone

This is the most common problem which makes a newlywed bride go nuts. Wedding comes with a lot of stress that you don’t get enough sleep but after marriage, you are surrounded by everyone. Your nanad, devar, mother-in-law is always there to have a word with you even if you are no mood to talk and you never know anyone can call you between sleep or work because dur ke chacha ji has especially come to meet the bride.

• Changing Food habits

With new people, you get to acknowledge the change in food habits like they don’t like pulse with a Mirchi tadka or rajma is only a weekend dish, less spicy food, no junk food from outside etc. Sometimes, there are rules that you won’t eat after 9 no matter whether you are feeling hungry so you have to order something from outside without telling anyone.

• Chemistry with In-laws

First few weeks of marriage are complete bliss. You are in the awe of the feeling that now you have two pairs of parents and feeling like flying high on sky that now you get more love and care from your mother/father-in-law but your dreams shatter when you try to sink the reality that no matter how much you do and what you do, you can’t take the place of daughter in their hearts and you try to accept the harsh truth of life.

• Strange habits of husband

Love is a strong emotion and we agree no matter how your life partner is, you always love and care for them from the core of the heart but sharing the same space with your spouse becomes a tough task in the initial year of marriage. You have to make up your mind that your spouse has a different way of doing certain things and in spite of having any conflict, it is better to get adjusted with few habits.