Originally posted by: Doodle12
I think that depends on when the wedding happened. How many years after sonakshi left. Ria's wedding seemed 3-4 years after sonakshi left. He could've attended imo.
I also don't think only he stood up with his sisters . They stood up for him as well. Neha kinda lost everything for him, ik her last days were terrible but before that she did support their relationship. If Dev's behaviour can be excused so can neha's. Also she had genuine reasons for disliking Sona imo. Idk for whatever reason sonakshi was hell bent on "saving" their relationship.
I get why that he was depressed but I honestly don't excuse this. He wasn't dealing with his trauma, nor was he reflecting on his behaviour. His depression somehow only showed in him sleeping around. Also he acted terribly towards sonakshi for them to actually question his love. (I wouldn've been upset if my brother turned out to be such a person). They could've helped a bit but that isn't something that Dev should've expected. They weren't very close before sonakshi showed up. I doubt that bond grew too much.
I would blame Nikki probably for not helping him because she was the only one who didn't have her shit to deal with. Neha had serious troubles in her marriage (I wouldn't put the main couple's troubles over some other)
Ria's love interest turned out to be a incestual lover.
I'd however blame them from not standing with sonakshi. That was terrible, they saw and were aware of their brothers actions, how she was treated and didn't even check up once.
For the money, neha gave up her entire childhood for Dev so she couldn't be questioned.
Nikki lived with her boyfriend. Dev was basically a parent to her. Same with ria.
I guess we have opposite views here.
Dev and Sona were both heartbroken, but had very different ways of coping.
Dev was dating multiple women, to prove to himself that he was moving on from Sona. But that is most unlike him, he wasn't a womanizer and pretty much everyone around him knew it was a facade. Everyone knew he was pining for Sonakshi. He was severely depressed, which is why he was doing this. He didn't go to work much and he rarely met his mother. His mother, the person who was his God,, his everything meant nothing now. That itself shows how far gone he was. That's the thing about depression, the ways to cope is not textbook. He was in serious denial about the entire sequence of events which is why he wasn't introspective.
Sona, on the other hand, did not have the luxury to sit and think about how she felt and how she will deal with her heartbreak. She was on survival mode the whole time. She was pregnant and her whole family was on the streets. "When you are on the Titanic, you don't stop to yell at the iceberg. You focus on lowering the life boats." That's what she did. She took care of herself, her baby, built a business and gave her family the life they lost. Her way of coping was to build a wall around herself, completely impenetrable. No one could get in there, not even her own feelings. She kept it all at bay, until Dev broke that wall and captured her heart again.
Dev's sisters knew how heartbroken he was. He wasn't even paying attention to their mother, that was a big deal in the Dixit household. They knew how much he loved Sona and how it had been when he had first broken up with her. This was worse, because this was after their marriage. So why not step up for the brother who had always been there for them? He needed his family. But the Dixits were always too selfish, and until Sona, Dev was always alone. He was just their go-to guy for all materialistic things and the fall guy for Neha's rants. It's pathetic how three grown-up women treated their brother. As long as he provided for them, they were all Dev bhaiyya!! And as soon as he crumpled, they blamed him and took off!
In the show, I wanted Dev's sisters to apologize to him as much as I wanted him to apologize to Sonakshi. Thankfully, Ishwari does make them realize that.