Originally posted by: vaidharbhi95
She keeps Nandini and Shivi above herself for the sake of Ram only , because she thinks that is the priority order in Ram's life.
She is not wrong, given an option to choose between romantic love and duty towards family it will be duty and obligation towards family for Ram. It's a very emotionally exhausting place for him. Ram struggles in balancing relations because unlike Priya he is soft and very conscious of not hurting people.
Diwali night made a huge impact in the way Priya sees Ram. He had confessed to her then that he constantly fears that his love will be divided after Priya entered his life and his family would feel left out. If that happens Ram would go on a guilt trip cursing himself that he let down the promise made to his dead father of keeping the family together.
So Priya as a wife has taken upon herself to respect his obligations.
I don't like drawing mythological parallels because BALH2 has become too impure for that. But still , how in some versions of Ramayan , Sita herself chooses to abandon Ram and raise her child alone in order to protect Ram's Raja dharam. Ram loves Sita dearly but still let's go of his pregnant wife and unfortunately the kids though are innocent they lead a vanvasi life instead of life of a prince. ( I am not a fan of this track of Ramayan , but would stop here because don't want to hurt anyone's religious sentiments)
This dynamic will change only and only when Ram can break free from the kind of suffocating obligation he feels towards his step family and he tells Priya about it. But we know that Ram himself will never be able to do that. The scene were Priya confronts on whether he is hurt by Shivi's words, he vehemently refuses. He has never been able to accept to himself in sober state that his step family doesn't love him and all he has is their daya/mercy.
So only when Priya sees through the evil side of Nandini which will harm Ram , she will free not only herself but Ram too ..
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