I am Raj, 30 year old male living in Bangalore, working as a Manager in a 5 Star Hotel. My wife Kavya, aged 25, works as a Software Engineer. We got married two years ago and living in Bangalore as a happy middle class couple. Kavya is very lovable and a dutiful wife. Even in this modern age, like a religious wife, she always gives me lots of respect, never let me do any household works or never argued with me for anything

Life was going very smoothly until the COVID-19 crisis started to shatter the entire world. Indian government enforced a total lockdown and all non essential businesses are closed until further notice. Since I work in the Hospitality sector, our Hotel was closed and I was given a non paid holiday, until the situation become normal. It was totally unexpected, but we hoped that the situation will become normal in 1 or 2 months. I had some savings in the bank, so it was not a big problem to manage the household. Kavya also understood the current situation and supported me. As she works as Software Engineer, her company gave her a laptop and asked to Work From Home during the lockdown period.

The virus infections continue to rise all over the world. Almost all the businesses are in standstill and many employees are losing their job. Because of the lockdown, we stopped going outside. And even for essential shopping, we did it through online. Full day I used to watch TV and browsing the social media. Kavya was managing her office work along with cooking and other household works.

Slowly she was getting frustrated about my careless behaviour. While she single handedly managed everything in the house including her office work, I was just passing my time by watching TV, browsing and sleeping. She got upset and one day it turned into a big fight. She complained that I am not supporting her in difficult times. That night, she apologized for fighting with me. I told her that it’s okay, I understood her situation and told that, hereafter, I will help her in some household work.

Next day, Kavya instructed me to clean the kitchen vessels and wash the clothes. Initially, it was very difficult for me and I was too slow doing the work. Kavya was laughing at my laziness and told I need to speed up things. Slowly, all these works have become part of my daily routine while Kavya was busy with her office work.

The lockdown was continuing for two months, but there are no signs of the life returning to normal. I started to worry about and my savings started to decrease. But I was happy that, at least Kavya is working and getting good salary, so our finances are safe. Now that our personal time has got increased, our sexual relationship was more frequent and with more passion and love.

Due to the lockdown, the Salons were closed and my hair and beard started to grow fast. And very soon, it turned as ugly. Kavya did not like my dirty beard and asked me to trim. I have never done self trimming and hence was not able to do it properly. And it turned out I messed up my beard and moustache further. So to correct it, I had to shave them completely. I have never done a clean shave since I started to grow my beard. So I was looking very different and younger. Kavya liked my new look and suggested to keep my beard and moustache clean shaved until the salon reopened, and I agreed.

As time passed, Kavya got more occupied with her project work, and slowly delegated most of her house works to me. I was involved in cleaning the house, helping her in the kitchen and all other household works. She is now relieved from all the works and only thing she does apart from her office work is cooking. Even though I felt overwhelmed, I slowly got used to do all these works and now my day was fully busy with all the works. Kavya continuously nudged me to learn to cook and now I started to cook few simple dishes as well.

My hairs started to grow fast over the next few days. It looked more messy and my face looked more ugly, since the hairs started to fall all over. Kavya saw my struggle to manage the hairs. So one day, she made me sit and applied coconut oil to my hairs and tied it as a ponytail. She told, this way, I’ll be able to control my hairs properly while doing the work.

It was very funny for me to wear the ponytail. But I had to admit, it made me more comfortable and now there is no need to struggle with a messy hair. After all, it’s common for guys as well, to grow hair and make a ponytail. So I did not raise any concern about that. Kavya used to comb my hairs twice a day and make it as a ponytail. She also taught me to style my hair as ponytail and I started to do on my own.

Very soon the hairs grew long and was about to reach mid of my back. Combing and styling my hair as a ponytail has become a regular routine. One day, we both were playing Ludo Game and for a change, we placed a bet and challenged for 3 games. I was very unlucky that day and lost all 3 games to her. Kavya told that as per bet, I had to braid my hairs. I was reluctant at the beginning, but since I agreed it in the first place, I allowed her to braid my hairs. As per our bet, I had to leave the braid for that night, so I didn’t touch it. The braid was even more comfortable than the ponytail, so I didn’t raise any concern.