Cordelia:
see above hun, i did not have much problem with your happy sunflower - much prefer her to St. Billo!! Maybe Meena too will melt too when she sees my happy sunflower in full bloom (getting there slowly and steadily😆 ) And I love my Billo massi too! 😳 I miss her 😭
And please let's not talk about AD's "style" - whenever he waves his arms about and flaps like a bird I feel like tying him to a chair!! But I guess, if I do that - you can take over from there! The only problem I have with him "flapping like a bird" (love this expression and please may I use it), is I can't see his face in those times 😭 "The better to see your face with my darling" as the big bad wolf said to Little Red Riding hood... About the chair bit, that is a thought 😉
Sun, Meena,
I too have a problem with the romance track at the moment. Plus I don't want AD falling for Bani (more for AD's sake) and if he does fall, I don't want him to go in dukhiyara or the sacrificial lamb mode which unfortunately is what JW became.
I don't want a JW/BW reunion rightaway either. I don't want a repeat of June 19th until JW avenges his humiliation (notice I did not say Bani, I said HIS humiliation). Given the way things are between the two at the moment, a June 19th on the anniversary or pretty soon will cheapen the original June 19th. JW has to fight Pia on his terms and come put on top.
About MIL Meena, there are plenty of women in our culture who are betrayed by their husbands and in-laws and Bani did reap some serious consequences. Sometimes parents and well wishers force these evry same women to return and we hate them and our culture for making these women helpless enough to return, for giving them lectures on adjustment, for telling them your life is with your husband, your children no matter how ugly it gets for you. I don' know the conditions now in India but this was very much so in middle India when I left home. So I am happy that MIL is not giving her that lecture and I was happy with Billo that even though unfairly, she was there for Bani. These two have my support for being there for Bani. Sisterhood and all that!
MIL doesn't know how deeply Bani loved Jai. MIL doesn't know how deeply JAi loved Bani. MIL doesn't know that Jai needs more support than Bani 😆 . All MIL knows is that Bani was betrayed by her family and that her babies were snatched away from her at birth. All MIL is saying is make a life for yourself. And if it were a real story told to you from a betrayed woman's perspective (a woman who was betrayed, sent to jail, birthed two babies in jail, had the babies taken away by the father), would you recommend the woman to return to the original hubby and in-laws? Remember Bani thinks Jai did all that to her.
Bani is going to get the children no matter what. No where has MIL said forget your children and marry AD. The issue is not either/or, either you stay with us and forget your children or you go to jai and get your children. If this were a real life story, (Bani's),
and I knew only one side of the story, my recommendation to the woman would also have been, leave the husband, make a life of your own, marry a hunk, and fight to get your children back.
You and I know how badly JW has fared in all this. Heck, I even think that the above betrayed woman was the one who played a critical role in the entire fiasco. But AD's MIL doesn't!
Sun, if we haven't already beaten the topic of AD using Bani to death, I will come back later to answer you. Gotta go for a meeting.
Abha
Edited by abhavarma - 18 years ago