The equation here is between Anupama and Kavya. How Vanraj treats Kavya is irrelevant and moot when it comes to Kavya’s behavior with Anupama.
Vanraj treated Anupama badly, she did not take that out on Kavya. As a wronged and cheated wife, she could have lodged a complaint against both erring cheating adults, she did not.
The equation between Kavya and Vanraj is theirs to sort out, fight it out, Anupama is not responsible for Kavya’s state of mind. Kavya usurped Anupama’s rights, not the other way around. Kavya along with Vanraj is responsible for Anupama’s wronged plight.
Blaming Vanraj for Kavya’s idiocy is neither here nor there. Kavya can leave the house - there is no such legal right or expectation that the wife has to live in the same house as the husband’s family. She is Vanraj’s current wife but is not accepted as a daughter in law. Kavya has no rights in that house. She is newly married and has not contributed anything yet to gain community property rights over anything that belongs to Vanraj.
Plus the house is Bapuji’s, not Vanraj’s. 25 plus years of being Vanraj’s wife, Anupama is owed half of everything that Vanraj has. He cannot pay her alimony (he did not think of it until the last episode) as he does not even have a job. Half of his 1/3 share of the house also rightfully belongs to Anupama as she was his wife for 25 years and was not recompensed for the divorce, a divorce brought upon by mental and physical abuse and cheating.
Kavya remains in the house only because she has always wanted to be Anupama. She has fantasized living in that room with Vanraj in Anupama’s stead. Kavya is the outsider, the interloper that has maneuvered her way in. She does not belong there. Bapuji is still alive and does not need to dispose of his house yet. He had the decency to divide it up between his 3 children, one being Anupama. Dolly owns 1/3 of the house but does not live in the house. So Vanraj can be be a man and walk out of the house along with his witchy wife. He wanted to but Kavya is the one that stopped him as she had evil plans to kick the old man and woman out and reign over the huge house as queen. She has no rights over the family home, none, nil, yet has fantasies of being queen there, she had no rights on Vanraj yet had fantasies of being his wife, living in his room, wearing saris he had purchased for his wife, Anupama.
Kavya has from the beginning wanted to anihilate Anupama’s identity. Is it because in her sick mind, Kavya really hankers after the idea of being like Anupama more than Kavya wants to be Vanraj’s wife? Whatever the reason for her identity crisis, it is Kavya’s problem to be figured out. We don’t excuse criminals for their behavior by laying it on their bad childhood or failed relationships, similarly, Kavya’s reasons may make a good psyche study but cannot be used as excuses for her terrible treatment of Anupama and the rest of the family.
Anupama’s relationship is not just with Vanraj, she has children, she has in-laws who in 25 years have become her parents. The divorce ended her relationship with Vanraj, took away his rights to abuse her. Being a woman and a divorcee does not automatically make Anupama the outsider, to the contrary, she is still Rakhi Dave’s samdhanji, she didn’t stop being Toshu’s mother, she is still Kinjal’s saas. The stupidity in addressing Kavya as Kinjal’s saas grates.
A marriage in itself does not make a relationship with the family. It might give the relationship a name which Kavya obsessed after, she got the title of wife, everything else is not auto hers. She is not Kinjal’s saas - she is the Step saas, the house is not hers just because she is married to the slime guy. She may have rights over him now and in ten years over his share of the property, until then the woman is just making a huge fool of herself. Vanraj deserves every bit of her crazy self and I hope he suffers an empty stomach, has severe migraines, develops GERD, and has FOMO every second as he watches his family being happy with Anupama. He needs to be kicked out of the house, Bapuji should not have given Vanraj even that 1/3.