Originally posted by: LoveInAutumn26
I agree that Ashok does and should take the maximum share of the blame for the marriage falling apart. He decided to cheat on his wife and then not tell her about it for 10 years. Not couple years, 10 fking years 😲. I mean come on he is a coward. If anything, I don't fault Babita at all except that she didn't walk out of that marriage sooner. She might have not been an attentive wife, and been more focused on being a mother to Minnie, but why should she be blamed for Ashok cheating on her. Heck, Ashok is also Minnie's parent, and should have been as focused on Minnie as Babita was. What did he do? Got married to a barely adult girl, had unprotected sex with her, and left her to go to London just in a month? Didn't even ask his wife to come with him, didn't come for his child's birth. He clearly didn't give a shit about his new wife or his child. Babita should have picked up on that and left him sooner, but like NB pointed out she was scared of what would happen to her, to her daughter. Ashok doesn't get a free pass from me.
No one is giving him a free pass. Not for the things he did prior to London or after coming back. I think what some of us were wondering was that for the brief time that he did come back to India, how was Babita to him? Did she ever try to get to know him or did she busy herself in the mother / bahu roles?
If she didn't, then her fear of opening up could very well just stem from there. She never opened up to Ashok, obviously couldn't do it to the Khuranas or Minnie. So it'll be very difficult for her to do so with HS too. There are some areas that will be easy like Lovely, but there are others that are deeply personal, like emotional and physical intimacy.