Originally posted by: aye-masakalii
Same!! I also thought she's leveraging Amrutha's crush to create messy spots for RaghVi, like she did haldi waale din, but damn, she seriously thought this could work 🤣
Also, why do people keep saying they aren't her 'real' family? 'Real' kya hota hai? Adoptive families real nahi hoti kya? Aren't families you marry into 'real'? Ya blood relatives abusive nahi ho sakte? It's been made evident that her connect to the Deshmukhs was greater than 'their son's widow', so how can she be done with them just because she's not his widow?
And most arranged marriages don't start with love, but they clearly had a lot of fondness for each other, or atleast Pallavi did, and perceived it from Mandaar too. We know they spoke for hours. They shared dreams and aspirations. Mandaar wanted to encourage her career, have her study more. She knew of his ambitions for DSE. They made promises to each other. Pallavi telling Krishna about her promise to make Mandaar's family her own was such a lovely and telling moment. They were on the brink of a beautiful, long, happy marriage, and they were all set to fall in love. They were robbed of their happily ever after by an incredibly cruel twist of fate. Pallavi wanting to know what happened doesn't make her hung up on her ex or undeserving of Raghav. And if Raghav wasn't in his guilt spiral, he'd have been so 100% understanding and supportive. He's just too far gone right now, for which which I can sympathize.
Same with Pallavi going to the pooja- why shouldn't she? She never divorced Mandaar, him and his memory will always hold a special place in her heart (again, working off of what Pallavi knows, not what we know). There was this line in a TV show, I can't remember which (Grey's Anatomy maybe?)- being divorced and widowed is so different. When you're divorced, you ended the marriage. When you're a widow, you're still married, it's just that the person you're married to happens to no longer be alive. There's no closure, but so much finality. Pallavi has the right to attend every single Mandaar related event for the rest of her life if she wants. Raghav isn't a Mandaar replacement, he holds his own unique place in her heart.
We claim to be progressive, and we all support widow remarriage, but it's important to remember it's not only the social taboo of widowhood, especially early widowhood. A widow has the baggage and memories of the first marriage, and they will stay with her. Moving on doesn't mean forgetting, and to expect the same, then you're not really rooting for the whole woman to get a second shot at love, just picking and choosing parts of her.