That being said, it’s safe to say that dharmapatni could have several meanings. To simplify this, think of dharma as what you have to do in life, and karma as the consequences in result of what you do. To break it down, dharmapatni consists of two words: Dharma and patni (which we already know means wife). The word dharma has many meanings in Hinduism, and even outside of Hinduism. So husband is “Pati” and wife is “Patni”… But what is dharmapatni? When I asked him the same question, at first, he couldn’t summon a proper translation. Normally, it’s a bit out of place to call your husband by “husband”, but I was practicing my Hindi at the time, and he didn’t seem to mind. Pati meaning husband, and Ji is a title given out of respect. In one of our sappy discussions (over Facebook’s calling feature, no less) I called him पति जी or Pati Ji. Before our marriage, DN and I would imagine what life would be like as a married couple.
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