Maybe Sunday morning chai. A walk after dinner. Ordering the same dessert on movie nights. Grocery shopping together. Calling each other during the commute home.

It does not have to be romantic in the traditional sense.

In fact, the ordinary rituals often become the most comforting ones. Years later, it may not be the expensive dinner you remember most. It may be those ten-minute walks, the shared cup of tea or the familiar routine you never realised you would miss.

Closeness rarely arrives with a dramatic moment. More often, it grows quietly through the things two people keep choosing to do for each other. And sometimes, the smallest rituals are the ones that make a relationship feel like a relationship, rather than just two people living alongside each other.