For the past nine months Salman Khan and Katrina Kaif have shared a rocky relationship according to their friends.

Salman and Katrina may be putting up a brave face in front of the Public and the media, but insiders say that they are suffering a rough patch.

According to a mutual friend,” Katrina and Salman Khan have been going through a particularly rough patch and for the last nine months there has been little or no intimacy between them. This is one of those strange situations in which couples sometimes find themselves in which there is no right or wrong because both have a point of view.”

“Katrina who worries what the future might hold for her personally has now begun thinking, that one way to repair matters between them is to accept him the way he is and give in to his greatest desire… that someone should love him so much that she actually gives up her career. If that were to happen, Salman would love to settle down with her and the much-awaited wedding bells would ring in the Khan household. Remember, Salman has never before been as keen to marry as he is with Katrina.”

“To understand what has gone wrong with their relationship, one has to understand that when Salman and Katrina met around five years ago, and fell head over heels in love with each other, Katrina was just a teenager. Over time, she has gone from being a girl to becoming a woman, she has seen several ups and down in life and she has made tremendous headway in her career. Obviously what seemed all grown up to her then, like say Salman’s drinking and bratty behavior, now seems childish to her. In Salman’s defence, it is important to say that it can’t have been easy to watch an adoring girlfriend change to a critical one. Salman himself hasn’t changed because he was always the way he is when they met, and that makes it even more difficult for him to accept that Katrina has.”

So goes the grapevine.