Step into My Shoes

After a long tiring night I woke up early in the morning and found my husband dozing heavily. My husband used to have a sound sleep even when he worked half of what I worked. Prem is my husband and we had married just a year ago. He was a typical male chauvinist and believed that domestic duties were meant only for women. I adjusted my night gown, tied the buttons and entered the kitchen to prepare tea for me and my husband. He always wanted his tea in bed. Only after he would have his first cup of tea he came out of the blanket and out of the bed. It took me just a couple of minutes to get the tea prepared. I poured the tea into the cup and entered the bedroom and found my husband still lying wearing only a trunk. He was almost naked. He had a clean body without any hairs on it. He even did not grow beard barring a few strands of hair under his chin. I gave him a jerk to wake him up. But instead of being pleased he just howled at me, You have disturbed my sleep. How peaceful it was, when my eyes were closed. I have brought tea for you. If you wish to drink it, just wake up and drink it. I replied sarcastically.


After the tea I started my daily routine of sweeping and dusting the house. It took a lot of time. After the sweeping and dusting I used to have my bath and only then I would prepare breakfast and also lunch for our offices. Both me and my husband were in job in private companies. The salary of my husband was just not enough for both of us. So I had to step out and in a very short time I was earning almost twice to what my husband got. This made him jealous of me and therefore to show of his male pride he became more harsh towards me. He would not even take a glass of water to drink all by himself.

It was a very tedious work. Doing all the domestic work cooking, washing utensils, sweeping, dusting, laundering and ironing clothes and above all doing a ten hour job single handedly had created a depression in me and to add to my woes my husband became more and more demanding as time passed by.