Hi everyone
I have been following the episodes as well as this thread but have been too busy to really put down my thoughts. Just wanted to put forward my two pence on the ongoing track in my favourite serial ...
The general perception in this thread and on some other threads on the forum is that Sona is really very clinical and does not probably love with the same depth and possessiveness that Dev loves her. I believe that is not correct. People always have different ways to coping with adversity. There is no right way to deal with such situations. No two people are alike. I can tell from my own experience. My sister (only one sibling!) is older to me by 13 years. So all the while that I was growing up I was always treated as a kid and generally kept away from any problems as there were other people to take care of. I must also add that my sister has been settled abroad for many years now. Two years back my mother was diagnosed with cancer and last year my dad was very unwell. Now when my dad was in the ICU, my sister broke down completely and she told me I was very clinical. But the fact is that my way of coping with my parents' illness was that I need to be strong, at least in front of them, so that I can take the right decision as they are looking upto me now. I feel if I show I am weak they would lose a little hope. I would express all my fears and apprehensions only to my husband who stood by me steadfast in these difficult times.
I am sorry for the long post but what I wanted to bring out that inspite of being real siblings, we are so different. Similarly Dev and Sona are two very different individuals. When Dev and Sona had a bitter break up, they said unpardonable things to each other if she called him spineless and mamma's boy, he told her that she would never be able to earn that kind of money, that she was a gold digger who married him for money and what I consider really hurtful, "its good she could never have children as she would have made a bad mother. I don't think that Sona was wrong in hiding Soha's fact from him when she was pregnant. The fact that when Soha was 6 months old and Sona's temper cooled, she did go him with her child but was sent away for whatever reason. Dev never really made an attempt to reach out to her in the 7 years that they were apart.
Dev probably feels more guilty because he feels he is responsible for bringing them on the street making them homeless. Dev's mechanism of coping with Sona's loss was to withdraw both physically and emotionally from his mother and family. He was angry at Sona also for walking away but he couldn't get her out of his system and tried to find solace in alcohol. In short he did everything that Sona said he would never do because of his attachment to his mother. Sona's mechanism of coping was to earn money and become rich because this was something that Dev taunted her that she could never do. She hid her feelings for him from everyone including her mother.
Hence, when they met again after 7 years, both Dev and Sona realized that unconsciously they were still waiting for each other. Mentally they were never apart that is why they were able to pick up the threads of their marriage so easily (except the physical part of it). They are able to understand the other's viewpoint better. Dev was always more emotional of the two. Sona feels she was responsible for the estrangement in Dixit family and is trying to set it right. Wouldn't we all do it for people we care about.
Sorry for the long post. Just wanted to put my thoughts forward.
Thanks for reading
Cheers
Asha