Originally posted by: EkPaheli
Perhaps the difference lies in how this situation is not something that Mihir has an easy get out pass from. He met Mandira while he had lost his memory so he had no idea he was married and so he cannot be blamed for encouraging her or sending her any mixed signals knowingly. When he hid that he knew she was alive that is explained partially by his confusion regarding how to handle that situation given she had saved his life and he felt indebted to her and she pretended to have lost her mental faculties owing to his rejection or the fact that her fake pregnancy was exposed which she claimed she had done only because she loved him and couldn’t handle the thought of losing him. For no fault of his, he felt guilty and by the time he could have made up his mind he had already slept with her and later discovered she was pregnant with his child so that door was shut until Tulsi discovered them in Australia years later.
Here he has no excuses. Here he has literally encouraged Noyna. He never compared Mandira with Tulsi to show Tulsi down which he did here. He repeatedly made Noyna feel better, important and superior as well as more in sync with him than Tulsi.
That’s on him entirely.
Most importantly, this is tackling a very serious and sensitive issue though the topic remains the same. There are so many cases of husbands cheating on their wives out there but it gets worse when the wife is older. She’s gained weight post pregnancies, she’s not as kept together as she might have been when she first got married in her youth.
There’s this whole situation that makes older men seem more attractive despite their age, looks if they’re rich and successful; women don’t enjoy that luxury. Older women despite their fame, success and wealth will still be not seen as attractive. When they do try to enhance their looks via cosmetic treatments and dying their hair etc. they’re still accused of being plastic and fake. In short there’s no winning for women. Look at Jeff Bezos, he’s old and bald but he still gets remarried and no one bats an eye. But they all call his wife a golddigger for taking 50 percent of his wealth in alimony conveniently forgetting she spent her youth helping him set up the company and is as much a reason for its success as he is but apparently she’s a monster for wanting her share when she is being ditched in this age by her husband for a woman who well looks like his new wife does.
A younger Tulsi could have started over again and remarried perhaps but as a grandma, a woman who is at least 60, will she think that? Getting cheated on in this age hurts worse because you know life and time is not on your side, you have lost your youth; worse you spent it on the same person who discarded you like yesterday’s newspaper.
So while the issue remains the same - there’s still cheating involved. Tulsi getting cheated on in her 20’s, discovering it in her 40’s; and Tulsi getting cheated on in her 60s is a different thing. It’s basically having to live through two versions of the same hell for her.
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