We have all had friends in our life and there would have been atleast one instance where we would have been made to think if we have ever come between two people. It need not be just friends, it could be any two people. Let’s say there are two people who are really close. It could be two friends or a mother and son or father and daughter. It could also be father and son and mother and daughter, I am just trying to give an example.
It is just an attempt to show how one might think when they are in this kind of a position.
Let’s take the case of two friends. Disha has moved to a new city where Ria and Tina were friends already. What would happen if Tina gets closer to Disha in a short span of time even when she and Ria have been friends for a long time? Ria would feel left out. What would happen if Tina made some plans with Disha but didn’t involve Ria in it? Ria can feel betrayed too. Ria can feel the same if Tina starts to give more importance to Disha or if she has shared something with Disha and not her and so on.
I am sure something of this sort would have happened in everyone’s life, not exactly the same way but in many different ways.
Ria would get upset with Tina or can get angry with her but Ria can get more mad at Disha. She can start accusing Disha to have snatched her friend from her. Ria can blame that she lost her friend, her friendship broke only because Disha entered their life.
Let’s say that everytime Ria gets upset or disappointed or feels betrayed, she blames Disha.
How exactly would Disha be taking it?
Each person can react to this accusation or anger in different ways. Disha can also grow angry and fight with Ria saying that she and her attitude was the reason Tina got close to her.
Or Disha could also say that she doesn’t care since it is not her problem that Tina chose her.
Or Disha can start doubting if she had actually come in between two friends and if they both would have been close if she never entered their life. Disha can start feeling guilty that she has come in between two friends. She would get convinced that it is because of her that Ria is upset, she has lost her friend and is feeling lonely. It all depends on the equation that Tina and Ria share even now.
Disha would want to clear all the misunderstanding between Tina and Ria and what even if that doesn’t work?
Disha would choose to maintain distance from Tina.
Why should Disha do it? Well as per Disha, she is new and she has seen both Tina and Ria close. Ria’s claim could look reasonable or understandable and she would want to give a solution to this problem.
Would anyone want to be a reason to come between two people who have been close?
There are daughter in laws too who would never want their mother in law to feel as if their equation with their son has changed. They would never want their mother in law to feel left out or that their son has changed because of them. If at all anything, the biggest insult for a person would be that they have come in between two people. A wife wouldn’t be able to handle or listen to accusations that she has snatched a son from his mother. The same goes with a husband. He wouldn’t want to be a reason for his wife’s parents to think that he has taken away their daughter from them. And the same goes for a friend too. All this is usually thought by people who can never have ill intentions for others, who would always want others to be happy. They are people who can be reason for other’s happiness but not their misery.
Isn’t this what happening with Sai as well? When Sai got married to Virat, she was made aware of his commitment by him. She has heard him speaking to someone named Pakhi and joined all the dots to understand that Pakhi and Virat have feelings for each other. She wasn’t too sure about it but that also became clear to her when she saw Virat worrying after Pakhi left the house after the DIG incident. She has heard from him that she shouldn’t have issues even if he loves Pakhi.
Sai is not Disha from the above story, she is not a daughter in law but wife of Virat. Even when she knew that theirs was a deal marriage, she being a woman couldn’t stop herself from acting possessive. She acted like a wife, didn’t like another woman’s interference between her and her husband. Her actions were questioned by her own husband who wanted to know if she was getting jealous and why should she be when their marriage is a deal one. She knew that he wasn’t happy to marry her and he was forced to marry her due to circumstances. Sai has even heard from him that he regrets to have gone to GC which made him get into this relationship which was questioned by his seniors due to some false allegations.
Sai could see Virat’s soft corner for Pakhi. She could see his care and concern for her. Could see Pakhi’s care and concern for Virat. She slowly started to see Pakhi’s affection and even love for Virat. Sai could only see Virat being stuck between her and Pakhi. She could see him fulfilling his responsibility but at the same time could see that he was feeling helpless whenever Pakhi used to misunderstand him when he does things for Sai.
She has grown happy whenever he does things for her, whenever he has supported her, whenever he has shown care for her too. She could see the rights with which Pakhi would enter their room or expect things from Virat or talk in between her and Virat. She could see how much of rights Virat had given to Pakhi to interfere in his life, to speak on behalf of him. She couldn’t stop the woman inside her and has tried to tell Pakhi that she cannot expect certain things from her husband because it all seemed wrong to her. She has tried to show Pakhi who is actually Virat’s wife. But all that wouldn’t last long and would come to a halt when something happens between Virat and her and when Virat would trust Pakhi more than her. It would make her take a backseat and she would again become the Sai to whom the marriage is only a deal. The woman in her would come out every now and then without her own knowledge when Pakhi raise issues whenever Virat cares for Sai or does things for her.
Ousting showed Sai her real place and she started to understand how much she would have meant to him or what place she would have had in his life that he could throw her from his life. It showed the amount of trust that he had on Pakhi and not on her.
Things again changed after she went running to the hospital when he got shot. For a short while, she had forgotten what the reality was, especially when Virat was making her feel as if he needed her, as if he needed only her.
Pakhi had always kept taunting Sai and Sai had even questioned how she takes Virat’s names those many times and not her own husband’s name too. Sai used to fight for her survival more than anything else with Pakhi. Sai’s issues used to be that Pakhi always targets her and was also instigating the family against her.
She fought against Pakhi as a wife questioning how she could enter their room at any time or how she was expecting only Virat to be her nominee and all that. But after she witnessed Pakhi’s accusations near the pool, after hearing their dream of starting a life together forever, she was brought back to reality again.
She tried to make them accept their past by confronting them and also thought that it is true till date, when Pakhi started to instigate the family against her. Sai always knew that Pakhi has issues with her only because she is Virat’s wife and was acting against her due to jealousy. She tried to put an end to it but it didn’t work when neither of them accepted the truth of their past.
There was only one logical reason for Virat to be nice to her, one reason as per her for Pakhi’s claims that Virat is changing, her claims that Virat is moving on, which is nothing but the fact that Virat doesn’t want to hurt Sai and hence he was willing to end his commitment. Sai has heard from Virat himself that he can’t give place to anyone else in his heart or life in the past. She has heard from him that he cannot be her husband and to not have any expectations as a wife. All those words came back to Sai after the pool encounter which made her believe that Virat was trying to do all of this because he doesn’t want to hurt Sai.
Even after all this, she stayed back when he asked her to, with happiness on her face, with some hopes that there could be more to the story than what she was seeing. He had himself said that she doesn’t know the entire truth during the confrontation and had also said that she wasn’t even listening to him.
She tried to find why he ended the commitment when he shared it with her. She has never wanted him to do anything out of force and tried to understand it but she didn’t get any clarification from him.
Pakhi started to show the displeasure and started to blame Sai for everything on her parent’s wedding anniversary too. She had not even invited Sai for the function. Sai could always sense Pakhi’s jealousy but it started to make more sense after whatever she heard them talking near the pool. She tried to tell Pakhi even on the day of the saree drama that Pakhi was doing all of it only because she has issues with hers and Virat’s relationship. She had even said that Pakhi felt so restless that she returned the same night even though she said that she would be at her parent’s place.
But Pakhi’s non stop crying, the way she was showing her pain, the way she had not had her food, forced Sai to think or accept that she was probably becoming the reason for Pakhi’s misery. She started to feel guilty that she has come in between Virat and Pakhi as how Pakhi has always been claiming.
Ever since the confrontation, Pakhi had started to speak things openly without any hesitation. She started to say that Virat was changing, started to say that he had betrayed her, started to say more often that Sai had come in between them, Sai was the reason that he has changed and all that.
Sai couldn’t bear the thought that she was the reason for a person’s misery, that she came in between two people. It is this thought that would make her feel restless sometimes and the accusations can sometimes irritate her to such an extent that she starts to speak bluntly that she isn’t interested in Virat or that Pakhi can claim him if she wants and it doesn’t matter to her.
Sai had decided to give up on her rights on the day of the saree drama when she saw how much it was all affecting Pakhi that she didn’t even have her food. It wasn’t just that one incident, Pakhi crying everyday, sharing her pain in anger to Sai made Sai think if she had actually separated two people. She wasn’t willing to accept it and kept fighting but she knew that she was fighting a lost battle because she wasn’t confident about what Virat was feeling or thinking. She could see his care and concern but couldn’t place his emotions as love since she saw him as a kind, generous and nice person who could do these to anyone to make them happy and also mainly because of Pakhi who was a reminder that she can never get a place in his heart. She felt that Virat was doing it all for her so that she doesn’t get hurt.
Sai could fight when Pakhi was harsh with her, when Pakhi was rude with her and when she used to spew venom but she started to lose it when Pakhi started to act like a victim, when she started to act like she was feeling left out, when she started to claim that she was getting betrayed, when she kept questioning Virat about the promise. If not for anything, Sai knew that there was a promise and how much Virat also meant to keep that promise.
Just like how Disha or anyone would have felt when someone accuses them to have snatched their closed ones from them, Sai also felt the same and she couldn’t bear the thought that she can be a person who would take away one’s happiness, she can be a person who would separate two close ones. She has heard from her husband that he was committed to someone and also could see some tension between the two always, hence concluded that she has come in between their happiness.
She then started to maintain distance from him, tried to keep him at bay by not letting him do anything as a husband, tried to push him away. She kept trying to act indifferent whenever possible so that she doesn’t get carried away due to her own emotions and his kindness.
She has always tried to maintain distance from him, tried to make him show that she has no interest in him, doesn’t like him. She does that not only to push Virat away but also to control her own emotions. It is a deliberate attempt to stop herself from falling for him or to stop herself from naming whatever she feels as love for him. She uses the word deal those many times as a reminder to herself, just so that she never forgets that she has to move out one day.
Whatever Virat is doing is something that she would love to enjoy, love to accept but she feels that wouldn’t be right. Even then she hasn’t stopped herself from trying to ask certain things from Virat so that she gets come clarity, so that she understands why he is doing it or to know if things has actually changed, if he wants it that way, if he has had a change of heart. The hopes that she has at the corner of her heart makes her question him, to get clarifications from him even when she denies it, be it the ring or the celebration and gets disappointed when the reply from him would be what she had already assumed to be the truth.
She is not Disha a friend or a daughter in law but a woman, a wife who has emotions and can fail to control it especially when she has been falling for her husband even when she had deliberately tried to not show any interest in him, when she had deliberately tried to call him a deal husband, even when she had decided to give up on her rights or to not come in between two people out of sense of right.
We have to see how much Sai will be able to hold herself back thinking she has come in between two people, how she fights with herself and people who would make her feel like a 3rd person with her own husband.
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