it is too early to judge elena's character. coming to slap gate incident, i dont think elena had to involved in anyway. it might be her MIL who called her mesho names, at the same time her mesho also gave back equally to GKB. matter ends there, it was all about two warring elders.
It was Dev who slapped his FIL, again elena does not need to get involved as it is her uncle and not her dad unlike for Sona. We need to know the difference and understand the importance of each relationship before we start fighting for the rights or wrongs. Vicky and Elena are spouses, if the mistake was done by any of them, then yes they had to argue and fight. for third party things, they don't need to be at loggerheads, this is precisely why dev and sona's marriage failed. they gave priority to people around them ( i am blaming both here) instead of their own relationship.
coming to vicky throwing away boses out of their house, every one including Dev himself believed that he was responsible, there is no way elena could suspect it was a vicky and not dev behind the deed.
why she did not stand by boses-- biggest question, what help were the boses expecting from her? did they even contact her or did they brand her as another dixit. ?
If we see the series of incidents before the final showdown, we dont get to see sona talking to elena or vice versa when she left dev and started staying with boses before she arranged for the money . When people shut you off there is no way you can barge into their lives.
this is the major complaint i have about sona, she was in crisis, her father was humiliated, no denying that , yet there was no reason why she had to completely shut out dev from her life. Earning your fathers respect, and saving your relationship with your spouse are two separate entities. each have a place of their own.
Dev tired ample times to reach out to her, she could conveyed that she would not like to return until she restores her father's image. instead of having a word, she chose to shut off . When egos flare people get blinded. this is what happened with sona, shutting out only adds to more problems.
This is precisely what Asha is teaching her, blunders do happen in every relationship. WE hold on to them inspite of all flaws because we value them, the minute the value of it diminishes, it tends to snap.