Originally posted by: Mahisa22
About MayRa not being legal hubby wife, the "marriage" they did wasn't a proper one. You need to follow certain rituals to perform a marriage, and a religious marriage without a priest, mantras or witnesses is null and void. That's what I meant. Though it isn't that important to the storyline right now.
Also, Maya did have empathetic and compassionate people around her-- Rajeev and her mother. Also she knows that she has 'sanak'. She realizes that the very mention of facing MJ has her scurrying for cover. In today's world, therapy is a very normalized thing, and rightly so. People seek therapy all the time and at least the upper classes have removed the stigma around it. And the trauma that she suffered from her brutality--- anybody in today's world would seek a therapist to get rid of the after-effects and horrible imagery that persists in the mind. Knowledge about mental illnesses and therapies is widely available on the internet and a mainstream subject of discussion now, so I don't see why Maya would not have considered therapy for her severe PTSD.
It's all easier said than done.
As for legality of marriage, that's TV wedding. Rudra admits that he has married her and so does Maya. They won't allow anyone else to question it. So, yeah marriage stands by their own testimony and they happen to be adults in their 30s by all means.