A slow-burn of emotion
Love is recognising that you can’t always be in love, & being friends with your partner when that happens.
• The inspiration:
This is Us, a series about a happy family that isn’t always in love. And Lovesick, a sitcom about love in the hook-up age.
• The love bombing tip:
Listen to what they say they wish they had/could buy, and gift it to them when they least expect it!
• The big plan this year:
“We got married on Valentine’s Day in Shimla, so we are celebrating with some travel to the mountains."
BBeing in love is swell. “But it’s impossible to be in love all the time,” says the 36-year-old co-founder and CEO of Yuvaa. He would know. He’s been with his wife, Daisy, for 16 years, dating her for eight years before tying the knot eight years ago.
“Love is recognising that you can’t always be in love, and being friends with your partner when ever that happens,” Taneja says. “Sometimes there are days, weeks, even months when you may be going through something, and love may drift away. But, if your relationship is based on trust, care and friendship, you give yourselves and each other the space until you have that full cup of love again.”
Taneja says it was his wife that introduced him to the idea of Me Time, private spaces in a lifetime of togethern ess. “It’s incredibly important to find ‘we time’ and ‘me time’, not just on weeken ds, but every day,” he says.
It allows people to remain individuals even as they’re part of a couple. “What long-term relationships offer is the comfort to be silent with each other,” he says. “Un derstan ding an d respecting each other’s silences is so beautiful.”