As the Valentine's Day machine rolls around in February, we bring you a 'different' blogathon: Letters To My Ex
The Valentine’s Day machine rolls around every February, but sometimes, does it also make you think of the loves that didn’t quite work out?
“I wish I could tell you what happened, and why I did what I did, but even I don’t know. All I know is that in that moment, surrounded by everyone we know and love, as we exchanged engagement rings, as our friends cheered, I knew I couldn’t follow it through. I couldn’t do this to us.” – Nikita Singh, Letters To My Ex
Why do some love stories turn out so differently from how we imagine them? Or sometimes, do we fall in love even though we know ‘this isn’t going anywhere’?
Bestselling author Nikita Singh’s latest novel, Letters To My Ex is all about one such dream that falls apart. It’s a great read for anyone who is in love, has been in love or wants to be!
Join Women’s Web & Harper Collins India on a blogathon where we give good ol’ February a little twist – instead of talking about your love life today, we ask you to write a letter to your ex.
Some love stories don’t work out, and that’s okay. Even ‘ex’ stories make a difference to our lives, and perhaps we are who we are because of the loves that have happened to us. Write a letter to your ex (even if you will never send it!) and be a part of our blogathon.
Your letter to your ex could be funny, sentimental, thankful, angry, or anything else you want it to be. Be your creative best, and vent your feelings at the same time! The 8 best posts will be published on Women’s Web this month, February 2018. All 8 writers will receive a signed copy of Nikita Singh’s Letters To My Ex, as well as a Rs.300 Amazon voucher.
Send us your piece to us at [email protected], with #LettersToYourEx in the subject line.
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This strange love story reminds me of Princess Diana when she gave an interview about Prince Charles - "There were three of us in this marriage!”
This love was flawed and broken the way only we humans know how to break things with our ego, pride, insecurity and complexities!
Where do I even begin to tell the story of how deep a love can be, how it transcends time, place and people. Perhaps this is a story about how women are their own worst enemies. Either way it is a story that tells us how frail, fragile and fraught we are as humans and how much we hurt each other.
This love story began when I was two years old. Growing up in India in a culture that wove love stories like Laila Majnu, Heer Ranjha and the epic symbol of love, the Taj Mahal, into the very fabric of our existence, love was always an integral part of our lives.
One such love story was of a boy and a girl who were neighbours. The boy, an athlete, artist and a poet, found his muse in this shy, thoughtful and in her own way poetic girl, who seemed to worship the very ground he walked on. Her face could be found in all the paintings he created, and her name in every poem he wrote. The girl called him Sagar, which means ocean, symbolizing his all-encompassing love for her.
Everything thing was going well; their wedding date was being finalized, till the boy’s older brother who was a doctor in the same little town, got accepted into Stanford Medical School to do his MS.
Earlier my husband would say, 'Arey! What is there in making dal-roti? It's so simple.' After he had to cook everyday when I was ill, he has stopped saying that to me!
“Arey! What is there to do in making dal roti? Put a handful of lentils in the cooker and let it whistle and make two rotis. After all, how long will it take?” A handful of dal (lentils) and two rotis! This is the story of every woman and no one seems to understand.
Some time ago, after a shopping spree, my husband and I entered the house, exhausted. I had just about kept all the bags aside, when my husband said, “I am very hungry, can you make something.”
I looked at my husband in amazement and thought, ‘He had just had food, how did he get hungry again so soon?’
My husband, as if he had read my face, said, “Arey! You know that my stomach is not filled with outside food. Just make dal roti. What is there to do in making dal roti? Put a handful of lentils in the cooker and let it whistle and make two rotis. After all, how long will it take?”
‘Is this the way dal (lentils) and roti are made?’ The thought came to my mind. ‘After all, I also went along and now I am tired too.’ I was also getting angry at myself that after all, I had spoiled the habit of everyone in the house.
On the eve of her wedding, a woman writes a letter to her shallow ex-boyfriend. There is a surprising thing she has to thank him for!
Even the love stories that are not ‘happily ever after’ teach us something!
Bestselling author Nikita Singh’s latest novel, Letters To My Ex is all about one such love story. Taking our cue from this novel, we asked readers to send us their own letter to an ex. The best eight are being published here, and win a copy of the book as well as a shopping voucher for Rs.300. Get your own copy here, of Letters To My Ex and curl up with a bittersweet read this February!
Dear Ankit,
Are we moving past the expectation that a woman must have only 'one great love' in her life? Here's a letter to not one but three exes.
Are we moving past the expectation that a woman must have only ‘one great love’ in her life? Here’s a letter to not one but three exes.
We idolise love stories, but some of them fall apart too.
A blogathon caught my eye, ‘Letters to your Ex’ – the question is, which ex?