Vani👍🏼.
My mum who does not watch this serial, saw baby bear grab aastha's hand in his paw and hold on to it and her first reaction was 'he is faking, he is not asleep' and I was like huh...Agree, he was faking to be asleep, indigestion must have kept him awake n also saw his eye twitch when aastha jumped into bed. I think his ego is not letting him say the words and as you rightly pointed out, wants dear biwi to do all the work n all that he wants.He is SO ADDITCTED TO HER ILU'S.😛Needs to hear it daily.