Originally posted by: asmaanixx
She used Babita to avoid facing her own feelings. She was going up to meet her regardless but then Naeem Bi called saying the same thing and the "dekha" to Mickey was a slight reassurance that no matter how shitty her own life gets, Babes needing her is the one thing she can always count on. But post marriage, that won't be true.
Minnie knows what her place is in Babe's life and HS' life on individual territories. But where does she stand in Hanita's life? Where does she fit in?
Kammo's comments about Minnie being a constant, ugly reminder about Ashok, and then HS' love for her being a tool just to get to Babita - they're all very nasty. To some level Minnie may dismiss them as being "kuch bhi" but on a much deeper level, they must have settled somewhere in her mind. She can't eradicate Ashok's DNA from her body and she hasn't fully accepted HS as her father since she's constantly referring to him as her uncle. She may have gotten used to referring to her as uncle from all these months but they have advanced their relationship beyond that. In administrative purposes, in divine settings and now legally too, HS will become her father. And yet, she hasn't even considered changing her term of endearment for him.
Amidst all these wedding preparations, she may have forgot, but it is something she needs to seriously think about.
@bold it's partly because she assumes that her relationship with HS does not need any more work or hoops to be jumped through but it's not true. It's still not where it could / should be. Then again, it is not compulsory that she wholly accepts him as her father as opposed to just her mother's husband, even if it's something a lot of us would like to see. There is actually nothing wrong with the status quo.
It's ironic that the girl who always urged her mother to stop caring about log kya kahenge is herself affected by them. This highlights something important. It requires a certain level of self-confidence and security to actually not be affected or influenced by what people say. They can only get to you if you let them or if they unwittingly touch a raw nerve.
In Minnie's case, if she hadn't had those insecurities already, Kammo and Khatri's words would have just been like water off a duck's back.
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