I know lot of us are feeling that Astha is ignoring Shlok , after running after him and making him say the three magical words. But its completely okay, and its good for Shlok to work hard on getting Astha's attentions for the following reasons, other than the fact that for months Astha has been pining for Shlok's love and affection, and has tolerated a lot of rubbish from him.
A few days of her ignoring Shlok is not wrong at all...on any parlance.
1) Its utterly impossible that a girl can go on and about with romancing her husband with kisses and first nights after she has witnessed her father in law brutally beat up her mother in law...all because a DIL of the house went to see her accident stricken mother. Firstly it was very wrong of Agni family to stop Sojal from going..Sojal was able to go and meet her mom because Astha took the risk. Yes, Anjali bore the brunt of that. And that is to show Astha that all along, when any mistakes have happened in the family, Anjali has been bearing the brunt of it. It was important for Astha to sense how different NA is in public and in his bedroom...and same goes for Anjali.
2) While Astha is denying Shloks advances...because her mind is on something much bigger and more dark than what she saw in Shlok so far...she is still caring and looks out for Shlok.
She ran and tried to soothe his back pain , she tried to tell him what was bothering her but he had a call.
3) By being less attentive to Shlok, she is sending out a message loud and clear to Shlok, that something else is bothering her. Shlok now knows that very clearly...if AStha acted normal, he wouldn't know that.
I think its Shlok's responsibility now, to work hard and get his wife's love and attention, and also find out whats bothering her. She is not telling him, he knows that also. He knows she is like that since the sweektri function, he saw her falling down on the stairs after bring back the pink shawl.
And this time, he cannot blame AStha for not telling him or sharing with him. He never trusted her words with Jyoti case without proof, he did not trust her during Aditi episode even though Astha was shouting that she had evidence in the video camera. He allowed Aditi to put Astha's life in danger because of not trusting AStha.On top of that he has clearly told AStha that he will never go against Baba and she will be the paraya one if she messes with his Dad.
So now, how can she tell Shlok.
Still, she is trusting Shlok as before and runs to him for comfort , that has not changed. And Shlok needs to latch on to that and put on his own thinking cap. Its time to show Shlok with some brains. PLEASE.
We need to see Shlok working with Astha on changing his family..it should be AShlok as a team, not Astha's project alone..while making Shlok look like an average guy from Saas Bahu show.
We are not asking for romance, we are asking for intelligent meaningful husband and wife behaviour to expose and change the bad attitudes in the family.
It would be awesome if they show that while AStha does not tell Shlok, shlok finds out by himself of what Astha is upto and helps her . In pre marriage track, Astha gets cards printing with both husband wife names on the card and Shlok supports that in front of his father. We need to see that same Shlok.