Shrushti & Venkatesh

Chapter one of forever

Our story

Every love story is beautiful, but ours is my favourite.

April 13, 2022 · 4:07 am

"Hey!"

One word, sent at four in the morning. Neither of us knew it was the first word of the rest of our lives.

October 22, 2022

Her birthday — our first one

The first birthday I got to be part of. I've refused to miss one since.

January 16, 2023

I said "forever"

I typed it before I fully understood how much I meant it. I mean it more now.

January 22, 2023

She said it first

"I love you." Her words, her move, 9 months and 9 days in. I will never let her forget that she cracked first — and I will never stop being glad she did.

August 5, 2024

Half a world apart

I moved to the USA. Everyone says distance kills love. Five weeks later we set our all-time record — 1,955 messages in a single day. Distance never stood a chance.

Today

Still falling

[Where you are now, and where you're going together.]

Scientifically proven love

Us, in numbers

I exported our entire WhatsApp chat and did the math. The data is clear: we never shut up.

💬

3,34,965 messages

And counting. That's a full-length novel… every month, for four and a half years.

📆

1,450 days of talking

From April 13, 2022 to today. We barely missed a day.

📞

7,796 calls

Voice, video, "I'll call you for 5 minutes" that lasted 3 hours.

🌙

783 good nights

Versus 175 good mornings. We are, officially, night people.

🏆

1,955 messages in one day

September 12, 2024. Our record. What could we possibly have had left to say? Everything.

😒

Her top 3 emojis: 😂 💋 😒

Laughing at me, kissing me, judging me. In that exact order. Accurate.

A field guide

All the things she is

A scientifically incomplete catalogue of her cuteness.

😤

[Her cutest habit]

[e.g. The way she scrunches her nose when she's pretending to be angry.]

🍜

[A food thing]

[e.g. Claims she's "not hungry", then eats half of whatever I ordered.]

😴

[A sleepy thing]

[e.g. Falls asleep mid-sentence and denies it the next morning.]

🎶

[A song thing]

[e.g. Knows every lyric but only sings the wrong ones, confidently.]

📸

[A camera thing]

[e.g. "Don't take my photo" — poses anyway.]

💬

Out-texts me by 42,929

188,945 of our messages are hers, 146,016 are mine. I read every single one twice.

Where she comes from

Her people

[Write about her family here — where they're from, the home she grew up in, her parents' story, her siblings, the grandmother whose recipes she still talks about. Two or three warm paragraphs. The goal: she reads this and calls her mom.]

[Her hometown][A line about what it means to her]
[A family tradition][The one she never misses]
[Something inherited][Her mother's laugh? Her father's stubbornness?]

What she stands for

Her values & her ideas

[Value 1 — e.g. Kindness first][A real moment you watched her live it]
[Value 2 — e.g. Family above everything][Proof]
[Value 3 — e.g. Does the right thing when nobody's watching][Proof]

[A dream of hers][And why she'll absolutely do it]
[An idea she keeps coming back to][Describe it the way she pitches it to you at 1am]
[Something she's building / learning][Your front-row commentary]

Evidence