Originally posted by: Lodestar
@ AY @ nadaan @ pamk06
Agree with all your discussion regarding Adi being the more vulnerable one in the relationship. He is never going to forget Imlie actually leaving him in this lifetime at least, if not due to how it unraveled him from within, then at least due to how much papad he had to belo to earn a place in her life again😆
The makers have shown time & time again how Adi becomes restless if he does not know Imlie's whereabouts or if she is in any sort of danger. Even the slightest change in her routine raises his antennas, case in point would be him missing Imlie immediately after returning home when Imlie was invited to Chaturvedi house.
This latest feat of Imlie leaving him, not getting easily mollified into returning back, reassuring him all the time that she would be fine to live alone as a married woman, not demanding anything from him ever has imbibed in his mind the fear that she can leave him anytime. Though Imlie insists that she will always be married to only him, she has yet to give him any assurance that she feels anything for him because of his husband status or beacuse of him as a person. So this will be a major vulnerability for him until he is assured by Imlie that she wants to be with him & have a relationship with him not because they are married but because she loves him.
Yep, those were the obvious ones....it also cracks me up to this day that in the middle of his own marriage with Malini, during the varmaala also he was more busy with being worried about where Imlie is🤣......it does make me wonder if he would have managed to complete the remaining rituals if he hadn't been assured ki ab Imlie yahin hai, saamne hai even if he otherwise didn't want to accept her place in his life.
This again sort of ties back to one of my fav. conversations b/w Adi-Imlie at the hospital....when Imlie tells him all these symbols of marriage have meaning only if you assign faith to them....otherwise it's just a dhaaga....if he wants to believe it's a dhaaga, that is what it will become for him. She has long since resigned herself to the fact that all these symbols of their marriage mean nothing to him.....she's never pressured him to accept them either.
Which is why in Monday's epi when Adi starts feeling hurt or upset for the first time over the idea of her removing her sindoor/MS, it's precisely because the faith crystallized for him in that moment.....he believed in the symbols of their marriage because he now believed in their marriage. Otherwise as he was thinking to himself also, all this sindoor/MS stuff never mattered to him before.....it only took on meaning when it got attached to Imlie. Yes, he married Malini with those rituals too but I don't think any of those rituals, those symbols ever really registered on him as deeply as they have in Imlie's case.....he checked off the box with Malini.....while in Imlie's case, every symbol is an article of faith to him now.