How would you build your village? Over a great meal, an insta reel and some magical drinks?

I have been asked multiple times what is so different about “Desi Moms Network” and my answer is the same - It is not a group it is a village where women connect differently not as a wife or a mom but as a human being. It is not your regular ladies group it is the place to uplift and support each other. 

A group of women from my music  group met to spend an evening , we have been meeting for quite some time once a month as a musical group. But did we know each other ? Or were we friends? 

One dinner invite brought some of us together and amidst amazing food and drinks I asked a question- How did you meet your spouse. What did make you say -“yes”

That’s how we build a village, a thought provoking question initiates many things. The question was simple but the answers were the explanation of what love, respect and marriage meant to all of us - “Then and now” the stories were intriguing enough to keep us chatting till midnight.

Some middle school friends followed each other across continents, someone thought marriage was the way to freedom and fun from a very conservative household, someone agreed to be a mom, raising someone else’s daughter because it just felt right and talked about her struggles in the process, someone was asked a question about spontaneity in the first meet and that was enough to seal the deal. Someone was so young that love at first sight was just enough, the idea of “love” was more important than anything. For one it was the right thing to do to ease the parental responsibility, for someone accepting her the way she was enough to leave everything behind and move to USA and for another the willingness to start afresh after a heartache was enough to take that plunge.

I will come back to these stories in more details some other time. Today it is about the feeling we carried with us, a new found connection and friendship, the craving to do this often, meet again. Surprisingly none of us talked about our jobs or kids and not even the husbands for that matter. It was all about what it meant for us as women. 

What is your story? What does marriage and companionship means to you - Now and then?

A Kosa silk from my home state 

Gorgeous host 

The Gang 

This is just the beginning, we were having too much fun to take pics of dinner and dessert