Originally posted by: RadhikaS0
Purani,What you say about Jalal's condition may be true. But first of all, it didn't happen like this, as far as I know. Secondly, it is wrong to show such an NR in a country like ours where men typically blame women for any and everything.
In my view, Jalal simply behaved like a typical man today. Is it any rule that a woman cannot wish to spend time with her husband after she becomes a mother, that her job is only to give a waris and take care of that waris?Would Jalal have dared to behave like this with Ruq if Hussein had died in her custody? Just because it is Jodha, he is being so abusive.I agree he is feeling guilty about that night and trying to justify to himself that he was not in any way responsible for Hussein's death. He is looking for a scapegoat and he found one in Jodha. All the anger he is projecting on the outside world is basically anger with himself. For somewhere having failed to protect his babies. The war - it is an outlet for him to divert his guilt-ridden mind and be able to live with himself.The reason why he is not able to be normal with Jodha is because she is a reminder of that night . Looking at her, he remembers how he failed as a father. Which irritates him because he has always prided himself on being successful and he doesn't know how to handle failure.What he doesn't realise is that anger cannot remove the guilt from his heart. Only accepting the guilt can remove it. And why should he feel guilty or make Jodha feel guilty? It is perfectly alright for a couple to find comfort with each other after a harrowing experience / shared grief. If not then, Hussein would have died some other time. Since he was destined to die.Jalal may be a sensitive soul who suffered a lot of loss of dear ones and esp craved for a waris for many years. But Jodha is also a sensitive and a vulnerable woman. Like Maddy said, she was never treated so cheaply, as the CVs are showing. If she really had been so insulted, she would have killed herself. Or at least, never allowed Jalal to touch her again in his entire life.Like I said after Tuesday's episode, we all suffer loss. It is how we heal from it that makes us nobler and better human beings. There are times when we cannot mourn for a dear one because we have other responsibilities. When I mentioned after Tuesday's episode that Jalal should have supported Jodha and shut up Ruq then and there, many people were of the opinion that he was just numb from shock and he would support Jodha later. But actually he had turned against Jodha at that very instant because Ruq's constant questioning of where Jodha was made him feel guilty himself and to be able to live with himself, he shifted the blame to Jodha.Purani, do you see what's happening here? It's not only that he has unresolved mourning or undue attachment to Hussein. He is suffering from a guilt complex and doing what anyone would do - shift the blame to someone who wouldn't protest.If I were in Jodha's place or to be frank, if it were the real Jodha, she would never go back to him or even deign to acknowledge him. Whatever his state of mind, however much he may suffer, he cannot torture to death another human being in this manner.
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