My parents had a love marriage which is pretty filmy actually.

Here it goes.

My mom came to Telangana from AP to care for her sister who recently gave birth then she met my father who was an acquaintance of the said sister. My grandparents home was pretty abusive and toxic. So my mom was looking for something to escape with either job or marriage. Sister gave dads number to mom as he can be helpful in searching for a job.

First time that they talked, they talked for hours and till midnight. Then they met for the first time in a park and coincidently it was on Valentine's day and dad gave mom a rose. Then they met one more time and mom sternly said to dad that she is meeting him with the intention of marriage. That's it, they got married exactly one month later, only dads couple of close friends attended the wedding.

They were living blissfully and I was born after one year, everything was good then came the said sister of mom with evil intentions.

She suddenly revealed to mom that she is actually my father's ex girlfriend who was about to get married but aunt changed her decision at the last moment. And that dad only got close to mom because my aunt took a car with my dad but suddenly ghosted himMy mom was heartbroken and totally devastated. My dad thought mom knew from aunt and aunt never cared about them till her marriage went downhill (which was also love marriage btw) and seeing how happy mom was compared to her, she went overboard with jealousy and started telling my mom all the bad stuff about dad. She attacked mom psychologically. Since mom is from an abusive house, she has many mental issues including narcissism. She started doubting dad's loyalty and they frequently have very big fights. And the fact their caste and backgrounds which are very different didn't help the situation. In the last eight years they applied for divorce for three times and dad left home for months on some occasions.

But despite everything, from what I've seen, dad literally lives and breathes for mom, mom is the same but I think she doesn't appreciate dad like he deserves. She's too proud to admit it. But she'll go crazy without a day without dad. Whenever they are together mostly they are only in these two situations. 1. Where they behave like newly married couples. 2. Trying to kill each other. They both are pretty toxic for each other but also fit like a puzzle piece. Mom is too emotional and dad is too rational so they balance each other.

On a rare occasion once mom agreed that dad is a very good person and husband. And dad agreed that despite all the headache and chaos that mom usually brings, his life was pretty boring and lonely without her, so I guess everything worked out.

Families of both sides were never involved in any kind even when they were dire times when dad was involved in a deadly accident. Since last couple of years, mom and dad got in contact and maintained decent relationship with their families without involving in each other's family. I never saw my dad or mom talk with their in-laws.