Which is why I think the Adi that goes back will not be prepared to indulge Mun all that much. He is going to go back with newly recognized feelings that will not let him go back to the earlier status quo with Malini. He will go back and find he just cannot do it and maybe not be able to explain why to Mun either esp if her health or other factor is at stake. Hence the sympathy for Malini. Adi rejection and distance is the only thing that will get Malini sympathy now and thats the next track I think. So then it follows that Adi will reject and retreat. Adi will not be mollycoddling Malini any more...he cannot after what has happened thus far. That will be Adi repeating all his Imlie mistakes. It will be better if he decides to speak the truth this time around - than always speaking abt it. Let's see how the makers go. So far its going per expectations.
Thats my whole point. If they do not balance the three and only show that Malini is the bechari as she is being shunned by her husband especially after the said husband is the culprit, its going to backfire and show will become about Malini and her journey. That is what happened with another ITV show. I am not saying that Malini should not get sympathy, or Aditya should molycoddle her, all I am saying is that the sympathy should not be at the cost Aditya and Imlie's character or relationship.
I do not think that the next track is about Malini's sympathy. Its more about the acceptance of their new reality. Aditya with his changing feelings and the impact that its going to have on everyone around him, Imlie with her own emotional sickness and Malini with her "increasing insecurity and shaki" nature accepting that things have changed and her trust is not bedaag and how they each face this truth of their life.