LOL if he's really going to go for that logic that this one extra day will help him find "closure" to the Imlie chapter and he can go back to his Moon without any confusion, then I'm going to laugh even more. 😆.....Yes, he can try to give these flimsy excuses but the alter ego scene has already exposed his past flimsy excuses very well too so these new ones will be harder to pass muster even for him who is used to compartmentalizing. As I said a day or two back.....soch ko maarna mushkil hota hai....a thought once awakened is hard to put to bed.....Adi has been made to face some of his deepest emotions by his inner conscience....so it's going to be harder for him to lie to himself now.
As for setting someone free....yes, that has been the larger theme of their relationship all along....Imlie has never once tried to hold him to herself....she has been setting him free since almost the beginning of the time they got married😆.....she set him free from having to face the sindoor/MS he put on her....she set him free from having to acknowledge her as his wife....she set him free to go ahead and marry someone else😆.....she hasn't caged him or clung to him at any point in their relationship....so it has been a long time coming that Adi will want to come back to someone who never tried to cage him.....who never tried to suffocate him even though he falsely blamed her for his frustrations for so long.
As for Commitment....well obviously not yet....that is a bigger journey for him given the fact that he thinks he made a commitment to Malini first so he owes it to her to keep it.....his heart is moving towards Imlie but he doesn't yet have the clarity or courage to embrace a commitment to her.....btw I will point out that his heart is already there subconsciously or he wouldn't even be able to do these rituals and give her his name with such calm resolve. He is an expert at making excuses to get his way without acknowledging that he's doing it for himself rather than someone else.....so obviously there is no doubt that there is more hurt in Imlie's future.
But that's the thing....this girl already has below zero expectations....lol yes her heart is attached to him but she has already let go of pretty much all expectations from him and already been through a world of hurt regarding him and Malini....toh aur kya karega😆.....I think she has already braced herself for the fact that nothing he says really has any meaning as of now😆. Unless he does some bigger gesture towards her that starts to make her question what she's come to believe.....time will tell.
Imlie has zero expectations, hence she is not giving any importance to these actions from him, She is just taking it at face value but it is impacting her. Aditya will require a whole lot of more effort to convince Imlie than him, to make believe that he has deeper feelings for her rather than moon. 😆
I do agree his heart was in the rituals and he was totally into the pooja, not because he believes in it but because she does. Its almost like her vishwaas is becoming his vishwaas because he has total trust in her. Aditya has never done things that he is not comfortable doing but for Imlie, he has and it has always been when she has instigated him. This time he did on his own without any cajoling, all on his own and this is another proof of his changing demeanor. His "kuch bhi" as you said was exactly that, for her he will do "kuch bhi ".
The vishwaas reminded me of the famous trust convo. Malini, at that time, through that conversation had made her trust in him as a burden for him, that because she believes in him so much that she will not question him, till he tells her do it. Thus making it doubly important for him to ensure that her trust in him always remains intact. On the other side in the precap, Imlie is telling Aditya, that to "nibao" her rishta, her trust is more than enough and she needs nothing else from him or anybody else. I feel in the coming days, Aditya is going to be reminded of these two trusts convos, one where its so binding that the rishta has became a qaid and the other so free that its pushing him to soar higher. His own words, said but forgotten.