Lovely episode today! I enjoyed it - because I like Adilie but but I am unable to fully understand Imlie. She seems to not be consistent. On one end - she tells Adi - he needs to focus on Malini and then she herself looks for his attention. Yesterday the Sindoor was a bemani...Today its a gift from Adi to be kept forever. She alternates between not wanting to come between Malini and Adi and herself initiating conversations that open up opportunities for Adi and her to have a moment.
Electricity night - saying she is leaving, telling him she had to eat the food he made out of love, Good night, today good morning and the sindoor gift dialog.
She knows Adi loves her and is attracted to her...how can she expect him to seriously continue with Malini - if she is not pulling away...or is her expectation that he will straddle both boats and be with her on the sly.
Not sure if she is doing this because she is unable to keep away and if she even realizes - she is not being consistent. Her immaturity or inability - not sure what is the matter...I'm confused as to where she is coming from.
Does she not realize all her interactions with him will make it more difficult for him to keep his vachan regarding Malini?
I think it is very much in line with her character to say that the sindoor is a gift from Adi. The reason she said it was beimaani yesterday was in the context of hurting Malini Didi's feelings, she thought it would be beimaani to her. This is why she parted her hair, to hide it and avoid hurting Malini Didi whom she has a lot of regard for. Although she can't bring herself to fully accept her haq over him, she is still content savouring his gift alone in her heart. I want to clarify this point before someone pinpoints. She hasn't fully accepted his haq because if she did, she would be wearing that sindoor freely without hiding it.
She doesn't consciously want to come between Malini and Adi but her feelings always gravitate her towards him, she is not doing this deliberately. She understands her own weakness and asks Sita Maiyya to help her keep her emotional sickness in check.😆 Though I agree with you that she doesn't understand that her interactions with Adi will make it difficult for him to keep his vachan. I think this is due to her inexperience in relationships and naivity. You have to remember that Imlie is a woman who operates primarily on faith and thinks relationships operate on faith too. Her relationship with Malini also is underpinned by faith which she knows will be destroyed if Adilie marriage secret is outed. Her expectation from him re. Malini is that he will keep nibhaoing his wedding vows with her, that's it. The essential thing for her is that she doesn't want her own happiness at the cost of sacrificing someone else's! Everything is clear cut for her, relationships, her own beliefs/faith system. Her faith system is so strong that she is ready to block herself off to Adi's very pertinent point nibhaoing rishta with Malini with love for Imlie in his heart would be the biggest beimaani. But she doesn't want to wrap her head around this because if she did, she might have to concede that he has a point. Which would undermine her belief/ faith system again because she would then be tempted to act on this and that would destroy many relationships...As a girl who puts so much stock in faith, she can't destroy the faith of so many people in each other and her.
She thinks she is coming between them, lol. But I would argue that Adi-Malini relationship had an expiry date irrespective of Imlie being in the equation. It would have ended sooner or later cuz Adi-Malini are fundamentally incompatible and on completely different wavelengths as people. Even if Imlie didn't enter their lives, them drifting apart was inevitable.
