The Break up

Her

I fled past the main road's buzz and turned around in the adjacent road and I had to step on the brake so hard that my scooty started skidding. I never expected Rajiv to be standing right around the corner in the middle of the road. It was yesterday that his parents came to meet me at my house and later we had a bitter conversation over phone.

I parked my scooty near a lamp post adjacent to a Coffee Day shop and walked towards him.
"Don't do this to me, Rajiv", I blurted out before he could speak. "I hate to talk to you right now"

"I am sorry Neetu.. I may have overreacted yesterday... Can we talk please?" He pleaded and I couldn't say No... After all it was he who feels to have over reacted. So I walked right behind him towards the coffee shop.

He ordered two cups of coffee so that we would be left alone and then looked at me.
"Ok... I was completely expecting that you would be the kind of girl I would love to live with. I was not happy about what you told my parents yesterday and at the thought that you want to live that way all your life. Can you rethink about it, Neetu? All I am asking for is you in the way you are now"

Now, he was really irritating me a little. I thought he said he overreacted.
"Look Rajiv.. I don't care what you think about how I should live. I have been brought up that way all my life and all my cousins and friends have lived that way after marriage. What's wrong in it? I am only asking for something that every woman deserves. Is that wrong?"

" I am not sure you understand Neetu... My parents and I have always agreed on my expectations about my wife-to-be and I thought I saw that in you from the time we met. But why it all changed? What I am asking is not too much, Neetu." 

I only though that Rajiv was being impractical. I had nothing to say to him. I shook my head in rejection and mouthed the work "Impractical". The coffee came and we drank in silence. 

"As you said yesterday Rajiv, this doesn't seem to be working. I am happy for what I am and would like to live my life that way. I hope you find a good wife who would meet all your expectations. Good Bye" I took my keys and went out the door. I did not see him following me and that's better. If not for him, there are thousands of alliances waiting to meet. 
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Him

I sat there in silence not knowing what to do. Neetu just burst out of the coffee shop and I did not have any intention to stop her. This wasn't the only alliance out there and there are thousands of alliances who could give me what I expect.

Neetu is the 5th marriage proposal my parents found and because she was from the same city I was working in, I made a bold move and met her a week back before my parents could come and talk to her family. She was pretty and she talked nice. Her parents were good and they had money. And I thought she had all I was looking for. 

Ok. if this issue is all about what I am looking for in the girl I wish to marry.. Here is What I am looking for?? I want girls to be more independent and bold. I want a girl who would not leave her job for my sake, who will have her own friends and still they be friends after marriage, who would be open minded and smart, who would be equal to me, who would respect my privacy and I would do the same and would walk beside me always and not behind me. My parents supported my thoughts and looked for girls who likely matched my expectations.

I thought Neetu was one of the kind until yesterday when my parents went to meet her and her family. The first blow; Neetu did not want to continue working after marriage. She was not open minded and complained to my parents about my talking to friends often. She deliberately asked my online passwords and tried snooping around my things this morning. I felt completely offended and insecure and we had a long chat over phone. She insisted that I change certain qualities of mine after marriage that she observed during our meetings in this one week. I went off the hook and the phone call ended up in an argument. 

Later this morning, my parents insisted that I go talk to her and explain her what I was looking for. But now it seems that this attempt has failed too. There weren't many choices I wanted in my married life and all I was asking for is a woman who would stand on her own legs and the very same category of women is declining me that. Why talk about women rights when they really do not want to live that way.