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She got furious, and called up Ms K to understand the whole scene, and Ms K opened up completely. Ms P insisted that Mr H should also tell her everything before she decides to marry him, and our man opened up completely without leaving a single secret.

Ms P could not digest what was told to her, and asked Ms K to come down to Delhi so that they all can discuss the future course of action.

Ms P took up a weird vow that she will make Mr H marry Ms K, come what may – in spite of knowing that Ms K was elder to Mr H by 5 years, taller than Mr H by 1 foot, had a 8-year-old daughter, and that she was a divorcee.

Heated argument between me and Ms P

Mr H was totally shattered and confused with whatever has happened so far. He never thought life could be so cruel to him.

Though he liked Ms K, they had made no commitments as far as marriage is concerned, and he was in love with Ms P whom he wanted to get married to very badly - and now there was a fear of losing Ms K or Ms P or both forever. The next thing he did was - he called me…

I asked him to make Ms P talk to me. When Ms P called me she was fuming over the phone. She was blasting Mr H left, right and center. She abused him of not having the guts to marry someone he slept with, and she took a vow saying she will make him marry her come what may.

Neither Mr H told me about the sexual relationship he had had with Ms K, nor did I tell him that I came to know about the same through Ms K. I thought only I knew this part, and very innocently asked Ms P what makes her so sure that Mr H slept with Ms K – and she replied “Mr H told her.” I asked her to hand over the phone to Mr H. I asked him, why the hell did he tell about his sexual relationship with Ms K, and he replied - he had to open up completely for honesty sake.

The phone was passed on to Ms P now. I asked her, just because he slept with another woman, does that mean he has to marry her? That way many men under the planet will be married to someone else and not their wives. She said not because he slept with her but because she is pregnant! My God – that was news to me. I asked her to hand over the phone to Mr H again….

I asked him, when did that happen, and he said 10 days back Ms K was in Delhi, and she had insisted to have sex with him. I asked him didn’t you have the brain to use a condom? He said he never expected sex that night. And till date he was not sure whether he leaked inside her or outside. (In fact it was later I came to know that Ms K was impregnated before too – and they both had decided to abort the child)

My voice obviously had toned down a lot, and my new argument with Ms P was – just because Mr H had slept with Ms K and just because Ms K is pregnant – does that mean he has to marry her when there was no committed from both the end? And she plainly said, YES. He has to be responsible for the kid. I could say nothing but divert the conversation to a new topic.

I asked Ms P now that Mr H and YOU have also had sex already, does that mean he has to marry you too? She was shocked for a while, and started stammering. She had the slightest idea that Mr H would have told me this secret about their relationship. I asked her just because you were not impregnated does that mean you can walk away from the relationship unscathed – when there was a committed of marriage between you both? She didn’t have many words to coin….

I said your vow of getting Mr H married to Ms K is perfectly fine, but then what about you? You will remain unmarried? She said, no. She will marry someone else whom her parents select for her. In that case I asked her – will you tell your ‘would be’ that you have already slept with another man before marriage? She said it depends. I said that is exactly what Mr H did now. He slept with Ms K and didn’t tell you, you slept with Mr H and are not going to tell to someone whom you are going to marry in future. So where is the difference?

For the sake of argument, she said that she will tell everything beforehand to the guy she is going to get married in future. And I ended up the conversation saying – I will leave my profession as an astrologer if someone in India marries you in spite of you telling him that you slept with some else before marriage!

To be continued….