Needless to say, after marriage one's priorities changes.
For Babita, Minnie has always been her top priority and she always will be. However, since her marriage, she has started to make HS and his wishes a priority too. Whatever you want to say about her state of mind right now, the fact is, that this is the first time in life that she is receiving a husband's love without any kind of conditions or restrictions. Yes, she may be caught up in all the external factors like surnames, and all the different kind of poojas, but she's doing it out of what she considers to be love. She's doing it partially because she herself wants to do it for him, but also because she thinks it'll make him happy.
We know that what HS really desires is an emotional companionship. He may not care much for all these rituals and customs, but he'll happily go along with it because it'll make Babita happy. It's not a secret that as of right now, his top priority is Babita's happiness. He has seen firsthand how her first marriage got disintegrated and all the scars it left on her psyche. He may not ever completely understand how deep those wounds go, but he will do whatever he can to heal them. As of now, he understands that Babita needs to be eased into this marriage and the role of being not just a new wife, but his wife. She will stumble and fall, and make a whole lot of mistakes that will pain and anger him, but he's willing to bear with it in the hopes that one day, she will truly understand him. That one day, she will look past the surface and see what he truly desires from her.
For Minnie, Babita's independence is everything and their catering service is a symbol of that independence. It's a testament to all the hardships they had to face and how together, they were able to overcome all their obstacles and stand firmly on their own two feet. Minnie doesn't have a problem with Babita taking care of Chachiji or her doing poojas for HS. Her problem is that she doesn't want Babita to do anything at the risk of her own identity. She doesn't want her to fall back into that same vicious trap that she had broken out of. Marital artifacts like sindoor and mangalsutra are fine but they shouldn't define her. There's more to Babita than just her surname, or her marital status. She's also a mother, a sister, an entrepreneur, an ex-divorcee, a woman who survived multiple sexual assaults, a woman who fought her own divorce case in court, a woman who gave inspiration to other women around her to take up jobs themselves. She's all of this and still, so much more. This is all that Minnie wants from her Babes - to realize her own worth and not be tied down by just one thing.
As life progresses, priorities change. Those that remain stagnant may change in their degree but it doesn't mean that their value has been completely erased.
Let's see what today's episode has in store for us.
Hope you all enjoy. <3