I am sorry but I don't agree with you. Her first loyalty is to her daughters but I don't think that by staying with her cheating husband is the best way to portray that loyalty. What would she be teaching her daughters? It is okay to be treated with disrespect by your husband, to be cheated on for two years? That it is okay to sacrifice your self-respect to stay in a dead marriage, that too with a man who had raised his hand in a public place. I think one of the best lessons a parent can teach the kids is to respect oneself, realize your self-worth because if you won't, then nobody else would.
Pratik is abusive, mentally and on one instance physically. It is because she has daughters that she needs to leave him. Pratik didn't just have an one night stand with Neha - it was an elaborate affair that went on for two years. During that time, he pretended to be a good and dutiful husband. It shows the kind of duplicity that man is capable of. And when he was caught cheating, he wasn't even sorry. He, instead was incensed that Amrita didn't immediately forgive him for what he called a minor mistake. This is the same man who tried to get Kabir off his own daughter's kidnapping case because of Amrita's completely platonic friendship with Kabir!
Kushan only forgave Lavanya because he needed her help to hide his crimes and Lavanya was sorry for her transgression unlike Pratik. Lavanya was practically on her knees begging for forgiveness unlike Pratik who tried to force Amrita to forgive him by reminding her of all the monetary advantages she had because of him. He went to live with Neha because his ego can't accept the fact that his wife talked back to him. Instead of being contrite and offering to support his wife in a time of great need, he decided to shack up with another woman. If there's love and respect in a marriage and there's problems, people ideally talk out their differences, they don't go and sleep with the secretary.
I don't think it really matters whether Amrita loves Pratik because Pratik certainly doesn't. She is just a belonging to him, like his house or his companies. Amrita needs to leave him, if only to show her daughters that there's more to marriage than being a made up, speechless doll in the home of a rich man who gets away with treating her in whatever way he wants.
Edited by wayne1981 - 10 years ago