When Husband Wife Live Like Roommates Poem by Asit Kumar Sanyal

After marriage we all love our spouse too much
call sweet heart
later, few of us enjoy same type of love
throughout the life
but majority face some changes in it
some enjoy with little quarrel and bitterness
and some live like roommates
in their house
with empty love tank.

Those live like roommates
life is a routine for them
I know a couple like this
they get up in the morning
go off to work
come back in the afternoon
he does his thing
she does her
have dinner together with no talk
he watches TV while eating
at 10 pm lock the main gate
and sleeps in front of TV
unless she tells
it's the time to go to bed
this schedule continues for five days
Monday to Friday
on Saturday morning
he goes to play cricket nearby
in the afternoon
works at kitchen garden
at night they go outside for dinner
with another couple
and full time he talks with them
they come back at about 11 pm
and go to sleep
they sleep on same bed
but like two unknown persons
on Sunday they go to temple together
with limited talk
and this routine repeats week after week
month after month
they live like two roommates in a house
they sleep together, eat together
goes out together
but have no love, no attraction
no warmth, no emotion
their love-tank is empty.

They don't know how it happened
but it's the reality.

Their problem is nothing but lack of knowledge
they don't know the language of love
he doesn't know her primary love language
and she doesn't know his
when someone will help them to know it
and they will talk each other's language
the problem will vanish like a piece of camphor
and soon they will go for second honeymoon.