keep yourself in place of sushma.

none of these, would take jyoti's money!!!

i would let him die.....why? because if my husband beat me & made me dance in bars or sleep with people..and i found out he had a deadly disease which will make him die...i would let him die.....because no man is worth it for what you have to do...your dignity, self-respect comes before any man...so i hope brij dies....he gets the deadly disease and dies

I would do none of these because if I were Sushma, I would never even marry Brij in the first place

CF

You didn't offer us that option of not dating or marrying Brij, as QY said. 😈 Also, you should have offered another choice - marry Thakkar and leave Brij. 😈😈😈 He's unable to support her, but she could try wooing Thakkar.

I agree w/ Sharona. Granted that Sushma doesn't know the half of it - Brij faking his illness and his doc, being in cahoots w/ Thakkar, et al. But the side he has shown her so far is ugly enough - they are out of a job, and he is busy drinking, he insults her family at any opportunity (particularly his remarks about her father, not Jyoti), he sabotaged her exam preparations and saw to it that she didn't take her test, he degrades her by subjecting her to demeaning customers and making her gather up the cash, he sticks up for customers who demean her by inviting them on to their laps and then hits her when she protests about it, et al.

And to make things worse, she's allowed all her school friends to drift away. This is incredibly stupid - particularly since she now hates Jyoti and doesn't want anything from her, she ought to be gathering up other friends who can advise and help her. Instead, when she does go to them, she approaches them like a beggar, and even there, she doesn't know how to ask. If you were trying to persuade anyone to lend you cash, would your pitch be, 'You are rich and so only you can lend me the money'? That's a sure put-down: if I were rich and even if I was inclined to give, such a statement would be sure to reverse my decision.

At this point, I don't see her going back - I think it's over for her. In other words, at some point, she'll have to get killed, and then Deepu and others will have to figure out what's been going on. The stakes are too high for either Brij or Thakkar to let her walk. But if she does, she should just return home, apologize for everything she's said to and done about Jyoti, and promise not to talk to either KK or Sudha. Oh, and be the house-maid.

One thing I disagree w/ strongly is the argument some people put up on this forum that Sushma is just 18, and naive and immature. Sorry, but that's an insult to teenagers everywhere - it implies that every, or most teenagers are moral retards, who would steal her sisters boyfriends, and then put up w/ any illtreatment she receives in the name of love. While they may put up w/ illtreatment, most of them certainly draw the line when the realize that they are being cheated, even if they are willing to put up w/ illtreatment and other such behavior.