Thank you for the post but I beg to disagree, respectfully.
Since it is children that are the basic premise of this discussion, I'll try to take the things from their perspective only:
1) Paritosh aka Toshu : The eternal cry baby, never growing man-child, married yet the one who hasn't yet learnt to take his responsibilities. Wants his mom to take every abuse hurled by his father and even his mistress like a door mat. Has no qualms forgiving his father for siding with Kavya leaving his elder son's wedding at lurch but will find an eternal punching bag in Anupama for everything and anything wrong that happens in Sah house.. Has never questioned his father, nor raised an eyebrow over his deeds, ever but continues to idolize him.. Anupama should not forgive Vanraj for Toshu because that will pave a way for her thankless elder son to emulate his father even more and also augment the chance of him becoming a bad father and bad husband just like his father. Toshu needs to learn a valued lesson about fidelity, loyalty and necessity to stick as a family unit for his own good.
2) Samar : He feels his mother's pain and knows about his father's misdeeds. I do not see any problem from Samar's side if and when divorce happens. In fact he sure will be Anupama's rock and the most reliable support unit to even post divorce. So no issues there.
3) Pakhi aka Sweety: What do I say about this spoilt brat? She had no problem abandoning her mother and following her father to his mistress' house. Now she doesn't want the divorce to happen because she no longer enjoys all the pampering and indulgence? She feels she will be left out if the divorce happens?? What even? It is said that a daughter might be her dad's princess but she is her mother's biggest friend. But here she is only her papa's daughter to the extent that not a long back she had no problem glorifying her bestie and bringing down her mother just because papa live with the other woman. I agree she is the most vulnerable among the three kids. So at the most Anupama can stall the divorce till this brat gets some psychological counseling. I do not even want her to get conditioned to be either like Anupama the doormat or Kavya the home-wrecker. She needs to break free and be her own person by breaking out of either of these molds. Hence, divorce is necessary even for her sake.
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