Beautifully put :)
LOL I just finished writing a whole other thread about Hanuman's feelings for Babita where I spoke about some of this, but I'll add a bit here as well....
I feel HS was initially drawn to her sense of delicate grace and warmth....simple acts like her cooking a meal and sending it for him touched his heart....because he is a simple man at heart and these gestures move him....Babita herself is a nurturer....I think he's drawn to that part of her as well....she strives to nurture all those around her...with food, with warmth....these were the initial things....but as you said, bit by bit, he grew to love her in every form....the courageous, strong Babita that bloomed eventually made an even stronger place in his heart.
Ultimately, I'd say Babita gives him a sense of home....sukoon...the way he closes his eyes so many times when he's moved by something she does.....that is what he's fallen in love with.
I don't think Babita really has an idea about why loves her....that is why she grapples with self-doubt....she hasn't reached the point of being able to see herself through his eyes.....of being able to comfortably bask in the security of that kind of love.
@bold no she dosent. Hanuman has never spoken about it to her. Actually since the time babita had indirectly rejected him citing mini idonr think they have had a conversation where hanuman has opened up his feelings of his past or what he thinks to her. He has spoken to mini about seeing his mother in pain but not to babita. Nor has babita spoken about why she likes hanuman. But there is mini from babitas side who has told hanuman she trusts him with her mother. So i think hanuman dosent have that insecurity of why she likes me that babita has . He has just accepted her that she wants to be with him without the why? Or maybe he understands her enough to know what she likes in him. Maybe babita still needs to cross that level of her understanding for hanuman. right now she is very involved with herself & not thinking from the other persons perspective.