You get married thinking it’s about you and the person you love, but then the honeymoon period wears off. Money conversations get real, families get involved, everyone has an opinion. Suddenly, we're thrown into discussions about who compromises, who provides, whose parents come first and what exactly you both signed up for.
Saf and Zoheb get into all of it, comparing what marriage has actually been like for them. Someone else (Zoheb’s wife) also starts chiming in from behind the camera and accidentally becomes this episode’s unofficial third voice.
What follows is a very Side Room conversation about marriage, mummy’s boys, in-laws, culture dressed up as religion, divorce, financial readiness and the uncomfortable gap between wanting to get married and actually being ready to be someone’s husband.
At the heart of it is something pretty simple:
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A quick note: Zoheb’s wife wasn’t meant to be on the episode and wasn’t separately mic’d, so she’s a little quieter in places, sorry about that. We’re still improving the setup and getting better as we go.
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