Thrice as nice

You could never miss the queer style of walking when Kalpita strutted around the office corridor with a heavy file clutched closely to her large bosom. Her shapely buttocks swung from side to side as she took a step. But there were days when it used to be stiff.

Those were days, we were told by the office gossip collector, when she used to fight with her husbands. It always used to be a fun bet to guess with whom she fought with that day. I had also won a few one of them.

The girl’s name has been changed all right but the plural of the word husband is not a typographical error. Kalps (as we called her) is married twice with no divorces in between. She was quite candid about it and she claimed that she loved both of them equally.

“One my husbands is a merchant navy officer and the other is an out-of-station journo. They are both aware of my ‘marital status’ and they don’t have a problem. There are times when both of them are in town at the same time. These are best of days,” smiled Kalpita.

In India, Kalps is a criminal. The Indian uniform civil code makes it a criminal offence to cohabit or get married twice without a divorce. She has, till date, managed to register both the marriages and continues to eschew the law of the land. For Kalps, it was a matter of the heart. She claimed that she is so much in love with both her husbands that it would be criminal to imagine her life without both of them. If you fall in love once. Why can’t it happen twice and simultaneously? It can, of course.

“Our Indian mindset tells us that we need to be a one-man or a one-woman person. More so, if you are married. The moment you meet another attractive person in your life, your mind tells you that it’s not right. Have you ever thought that what will happen if you ever let your heart go?” 'R' asks.

'R' claims to know at least three such ‘couples’ who are in a relationship with two people at the same time. “We are not talking about sex here. We are talking about falling in love and marriage, which is a long-term relationship. And there are people who are getting into it and they have no pangs of conscience about it,” 'R' adds.

Wait! Before you jerk off that guilt feeling about fantacising a relationship with that sweety cutie office colleague of yours, here’s a flip side to a three-some relationship.

“You have to be extremely careful in maintaining a fine balance with both the guys. When you say that you love both of them equally, you have to mean it. You cannot afford play games and take both of them for granted.

Otherwise, you will lose one of them. But if you kinda be honest to both the guys, it’s an extremely satisfying relationship at the end of the day,” that was what Kalps told over one of those treasured coffee moments at the office canteen.

There are better three-in-one situations of course, when one of the guys is a gay and both the woman and the guy end up loving a guy.

But then, that’s a different story!