I think majority of us here understand that it's not love. There has been a lot of confusion about their scenes, but at the end, most of us concluded its not love.
@the date clearing scene: I guess its always been shown that Zain and Aliya are the latest gen people. They are not in the 70s or 80s or 90s to take up some revenge idea or plan on hurting the other person to get their way. He was being very practical that this whole one month challenge was useless and things will progress the way it should. He has left it to fate to decide how their relationship goes from here.
@aliya's breakdown yesterday and Osman's words: I always loved Osman's dialogues. It has so much meaning to them. I guess after understanding the meaning to certain terms he said from your post, I agree Aliya has only realised that she is invested emotionally in this relationship. She is scared and angry about how will she end up if she gives these emotions a name and meaning. Also she has understood the importance of how much Zain has been part of her life in the short span of time.
Osman's description about how they are still being like they were kids, I dont think anyone else can understand Zain and Aliya's relationship more than Osman. Its like fighting with your siblings. You fight and rage on them but you cant live without them. Its a bonding of friendship as well.
@aliya realising: She knows she cares, she knows he is one of the most integral part in her life. Because she wants this marriage to work, it is natural she is the one to realise first about her feelings. But its not Love.
I think their next phase will be all about Trust. You cannot love someone without there being trust. Aliya dint trust Zain enough to share about Fahad. Zain has not trusted Aliya enough to share with her about Aayat. More than breaking the promise, he is so unsure about how Aliya will react, if she will confront Aayat. Can he trust her to keep quite about it and let bygones be bygones?
With trust comes, more affection, comfort to each other, standing by each other, more confidence in the relationship and then finally comes love.
Right now, they are kind of in a truce or friendship mode. They love each other's company, each other's bickering, each other's simple presence in the room or the house.
Jealousy, obsessiveness and possessiveness has already been covered I guess.
Now the real challenge or test is WILL the CVs explore all this one at a time? Or will it be rushed? Can we hope and trust them to explore first?
@ZJ: As usual, it was a pleasure reading. I used to enjoy making such analysis before, but it gives me more pleasure when I read others. Make sure to make posts whenever there are urdu references made in the show. I dont normally understand them.