Divya & Bhaskar: Taking the leap!

Divya was looking to settle down and a common friend who met her husband through Aisle, suggested the app to her and she decided to give it a shot. On another continent, Bhaskar was also looking for something serious on Aisle and that’s when he came across Divya’s profile. “Her profile looked like a no-nonsense kind of profile and was pretty straightforward. There was no random info and that helps you judge a person right away. She had also mentioned that she was also looking for something serious, so I sent her an Invite”. “Almost similar things were written on both of our profiles and we had similar interests, so I thought why not!” adds Divya.

The couple spoke on the phone, a month before they would meet IRL and they couldn’t stop talking. “The whole weekend we kept talking because we had so much in common and in 2 days we figured out that this is what we want and we hadn’t even met!” says Divya. In May 2019, Bhaskar flew down to meet Divya and she went to receive him at the airport. “I believe in astrology and told him that we had to meet at a particular time and he had to plan his flights accordingly and I told him not to wear anything black,” Divya says, laughing. The couple went out for their first date and once they got talking, they realized they aren’t as similar in everything as they thought they were but they enjoyed that part too. “After I met her I was very sure about her. Our understanding of a relationship was similar and no-one tried to over dominate the other. My first impression of Divya still stands true” says Bhaskar.

The couple spent 2 days together and decided not to waste any time and within a week, their parents got involved. “We didn’t want to wait too long because he had to go back and to plan a trip again would be a pain and it was all good signs” recalls Divya. Bhaskar was born in Andhra and brought up in Punjab and Divya was born in Orissa and brought up in Andhra and they were also from different castes. This made the parents a little wary at first but told the couple that if they were sure about it, then they can go ahead. Having no doubts in either of their minds, Divya and Bhaskar decided to take the big leap.

“My parents were very impressed with Bhaskar when they met himself itself because he is really sweet and nice. To date, I think he is a really good guy, good at heart and he charmed my parents almost immediately. He spent a whole day with my parents and me. We went out and had food and went to the Vizag beach. Initially, there was talk about caste, but by the end of the evening my parents were convinced” says Divya. And then the parents met and the dates were fixed.

Bhaskar flew down to India a couple of times that year and one of the times he flew down to meet Divya, she planned a surprise for him. “He came to visit me after the dates got fixed and I proposed! He was staying at an apartment in Hyderabad so I asked my friends to go and decorate the place and I got him an outfit and a ring. I even got down on one knee! Funnily enough, he had also bought a ring for me. But I beat him to it! He was so emotional that day. It really was like a fairytale” says Divya, blushing.

Bhaskar, a professional swimmer was doing The English Channel swim and Bhaskar asked Divya to accompany him. So they had their pre-wedding shoot there too. In November 2019 the couple tied the knot.

Talking about what they most love about each other, Bhaskar says, “She always speaks her mind and I never have to guess what she’s thinking. At the beginning of our relationship every time we spoke, I always couldn’t stop thinking about how I so wanted to marry Divya! We’d be talking about something random and my mind would be going — oh this clicks and this clicks too. I mean how often does it happen!”. Divya on the other hand says, “When talks of marriage started and I was thinking about quitting my job, moving to another country, Bhaskar told me that I should do whatever I want to and that I don’t need to ask his permission ever because it’s my life and career. That blew me away. He is very progressive and there’s no compulsion even today that I have to cook and nobody is the “man of the house”. I felt very assured to get married to him. He even took a stand about how I am with his parents and told them that I’m not the saree-wearing kinda girl and that they shouldn’t expect that of me. All that totally impressed me. I think that’s more important than anything else in life for a girl” says Divya.