Life is full of twists and turns, ups and downs and we never know what is going to happen at the very next moment. What’s more, some unfortunate incidents make people lose hope of joy, excitement or even living life. At times, people feel that they can never fall in love again after going through a bad phase, for instance, loss of the partner, cheating or deception. They just don’t want to give themselves a second chance or in other words, can’t think about some other person in the place of their love. Nevertheless, we must not forget that life throws one more chance to several lucky people and they just need to realize it at the right time!! Agree?
The similar sort of incident took place in the life of Vaishali Chandorkar Chitale from Mumbai. She tied knot with the one she loved and later became a mother of his kids. However, as luck would have it, she lost the love of her life in the year 2000; he left her forever after brain haemorrhage and she gradually accepted the truth. Nevertheless, not even for a moment, she thought of any other man and concentrated on children merely.
Well, you can’t change destiny and so was the case with Vaishali Chandorkar. Even though she didn’t want another man in her life, destiny had planned something different for her. One day, she was asked by her mother to have a tryst with a man and obviously, the purpose of this meeting was nothing else but re-marriage. She agreed and that was the day she met Prashant Chitale, who is her husband now.
Prashant, father of three kids, lost his wife to cancer. The two met, started to feel each other’s pain and agony and consequently, made up mind of getting married. Naturally, it was difficult for their kids to accept the situation but gradually, things got settled and now they are enjoying a happy phase of life!
Humans of Bombay shared this story on Facebook which soon went viral!
“I was married to the love of my life, an army man who I had two beautiful children with. I used to be a journalist and travelled with him to the places he was posted and later took up teaching as a profession once my children were born. In 2000, he passed away from a brain haemorrhage and life as I knew it came to a stand still. I didn’t think I would ever love again and I was okay with that— my world narrowed down to my kids and I was happy. In 2004, my mother surfaced the idea of a re-marriage and asked me to meet someone she had in mind. I took my time and decided to meet him, if nothing to get a friend out of the situation, but when I did meet him he was so kind, compassionate and caring that I couldn’t help but meeting him multiple times. He had lost his wife to cancer and had three children, so we were both in the same situation — our conversations lasted for hours, because someone else was finally going through the same thing. I realised that after everything, I could still feel, and I felt for him— I fell in love again.
We got married 12 years ago and initially it took some getting used to. His children didn’t fully accept me and would call me ‘masi’ and my children called him ‘uncle’. Slowly, as time went by I started becoming their friend and an incident I’ll never forget is on the day of his daughter’s wedding. Her mother- in- law asked her to start calling her ‘mom’ instead of aunty and she immediately turned back, looked at me and said, ‘you’ve been a mother to me for so many years and I’ve called you aunty— please, can I call you mom?” and I don’t think I’ve ever been happier in my life— we had finally accepted each other.
These past 12 years have been beautiful — we’ve traveled the world together and watched our family grown. We’ve also made our own customs and traditions — every year on his wife’s and my husband’s birthday we cut a cake and on both their death anniversaries we go to the temple to pay our respects.
As a family our love has grown over 13 years with our 5 children and 3 grandchildren…we’re all going away to Lonavala this weekend…it’s going to be absolute madness! As for the two of us — we continue to be best friends and each other’s secret keepers. We also continue to date; in fact, we’re on one right now— he has a very romantic night planned ahead… I can’t wait to see what it is!”
What a beautiful love story!
Do you believe now that love can happen more than once? Have you seen any such incident around you? Share with us in the comments section below.