Me trying to be intellectual☺️
The truth is Shiv is in this pickle only because of Gauri!!! If she hadn't tried being Mahan and forced Shiv to marry Ippy none of this wud have happened. So if u ask me, if Shiv is hurt then it is not only Ippy, Nikky and Maya's fault, Gauri is also equally responsible for it. (even Shiv with his ONS. but I am not going there). So now Gauri does realize her mistakes of being stupid and falling into Ipshitha's and Nikhila's trap and never exposing them when she had the chance, but wanted to play revenge games, yeah she had her right for revenge, but she sucked at it. So she didn't wanna hurt him more by taking away the kids from him. (She did something similar to what Kripa did in Kyph ).
The only person I truly sympathize with other than the kids is Shiv. Gauri, Ipshitha and Nikhila all played games in the name of love for Shiv, but all hurt Shiv in a way.
Shiv's fault is that he didn't believe Gauri over Ipshitha. but when u look from his point of view, his mother whom he loved and trusted the most, had played dirty with him. He was hurt a lot then and when ur own mother cheats u, it is difficult to believe some1 else. But Gauri broke his trust in a way by hiding the truth from him. And she let him continue think that she was going to die. So on one side he has Gauri who hid things from him, while on the other hand he has Ipshitha whom he had known all his life and loved her for more than half his life, and have made lots of "sacrifices" for him(in his eyes), more over because of him she married a man she never loved and which ended in a broken marriage, from Shiv's view he had ruined Ippy's life and in spite of all that she stood by him. So it is difficult for him to trust Gauri or Ipshitha over each other.
Edited by shivgauri - 18 years ago