Originally posted by: sammy17
Being a mostly neutral audience member from the start without being a fan of any actual pairing (although I have slowly grown to kind of ship rishta a little), I have to be honest and say that preeran are the first pair on itv I have seen who I just don't feel love each other at all truly, and it doesn't even have anything to do with karan always distrusting preeta (because it's from both preeta and karan's side I feel it's not real love despite preeta not being distrusting like karan).
I've seen plenty of couples on ITV where the guy doesn't trust the girl he claims to love, but still feel there is love between the couple, but just there are people close to the male lead who he trusts due to whom he is unable to give the full trust to his lady love that she deserves.
It's not as if there is anybody he trusts and loves who is poisoning his mind against preeta at all like other male leads. I mean, his belief that preeta is reason for his dad's accident was because of sherlyn cooking up a theory that karan knows is against preeta's nature, that because she was kicked out of luthra house and insulted by karan, she took it out on mahesh when he came to her house and that she must have treated mahesh the same, and mahesh must have been upset because of preeta and that's why he had accident after leaving ehr house. What a stupid theory, which karan instantly believed, that too despite it being just a theory, and from sherlyn's mouth. He really believed that to avenge karan insulting and kicking her out of his house, preeta would insult and throw out a luthra elder from her own house. What rubbish!
With karan and preeta, my lack of belief in their love being true stems first from perhaps that their love started from a friendship that itself I had always found weak. Karan since start did not believe preeta... he only started believing, trusting and considering her a friend when he realised preeta was right about sherlyn being evil and he was desperate to save his brother.
It was through this desperateness of karan to save his brother, the knowledge that it was preeta who brought sherlyn's true intentions to his attention, and that both he and preeta shared this common goal that actually laid the foundation for karan to actually start trusting and supporting preeta. The fact that this all mostly went for a toss when he believed preeta sold him out to sherlyn and pretty much believed with no evidence that preeta was reason for his dad's accident, and then everything he did to preeta post that cemented my belief on their friendship never really having been true, and mostly being conditional from karan's side.
I could still give the benefit of the doubt that it is probably true love from preeta's side, because of how unconditionally supportive and forgiving she has been towards karan, but then again preeta has been like that for the luthra's altogether, where she is unconditionally ready to put aside her own safety, self-respect and support luthra's and be by their side. With Preeta, the only thing I see that makes her feelings for karan anymore different from how she is from the rest of the luthra's is just what I see as romantic attraction, and even that too I always felt is mostly an attachment to him that she is confusing as true love. Even the romantic attraction between preeran I have always felt much more strongly from karan's side compared to preeta.
I don't know. Preeran's bond to me seems far more similar to puppy love than true love. There's attraction. There's attachment. But nothing else. It's almost as if the times spent as friends and supporters of each other working towards a common goal has made them confuse attachment for love. Again this is my opinion, but just based on the innumerable ITV couples I have watched where too there are trust issues of the male lead towards the female lead, this is the first time I have felt that this is just two people who think they are in love and are not and it's proving hard for me to describe in words why I feel this way.
And like how others pointed out, preeta has not even admitted to herself yet even in her thoughts that she loves or thinks she loves karan.
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