P.V., Author at Tiny Buddha

Posts by P.V.

P.V. is a tech professional with fourteen years of experience across large multinational corporations. After living in the US and Canada for twelve years, she returned to Bangalore, India. Outside of her career, she finds deep expression and peace in Indian classical music, singing old Hindi songs, and writing about emotional resilience, navigating profound life transitions, and reclaiming inner truth.

The Truth About My Marriage I Finally Had to Face

By P.V.

“You don’t have to set yourself on fire to keep other people warm.” ~Unknown

Tomorrow, a court will grant me a divorce after eleven years of marriage. I’ve spent the last several months rereading a decade of my own life like evidence in a case, trying to understand how I got here. What I found surprised me: not one dramatic betrayal, but hundreds of small moments where I chose to make myself smaller so the relationship could stay intact.

I met my husband when we were teenagers, through a mutual friend, and fell for him the way you fall for …