Originally posted by: joliefemme
I think it was many events and not one instance.
The reason he stopped her was out of guilt because he destroyed her life and she had nowhere to go. The reason he wanted her to stay with him was because he married her and as the son of Jaya and Ajit, he knew he had made a commitment and he had to follow. He told her he would be a husband in all ways but as a friend (he removed intimacy out of the equation).
The events:
1. The swimming pool fall and the checking out session in the bathrobe... He was so attracted to her sexually after this.
Also their conversation after where he realised how selfless she was and wanted to protect her and make her think about herself
2. Her not wanting to use his money (I think he fell for her self respecting behaviour here)
3. He ate the mirchi food partly out of guilt and partly out of love (her feeding him made him feel things he'd never felt before)
4. Her feeding the gola, he saw she cared and fell a little more.
5. Her jataoing haq by making him sleep on her lap. No one ever did that before. Fell some more. Slept with a sukoon.
6. Mujhe chodke math jao shower scene was probably because he saw potential in them. He felt this could be a forever thing??
7. Her taking his side when the whole world was against him probably sealed the deal. He saw the goodness of her heart, her unflinching trust in him despite everything he'd done to her, her leaving her family for him because he was right. I think this was the defining moment.
8. Their teamwork where they got the truth out of the neckless kand (him telling her that she and him are no different while gifting the neckless to keerti, feeling happy that she loves him in a beard, clearly telling her he likes her at Sunny ka house) showed that they can work well together.
9. Him telling her everything about his past proved that he trusted her enough to open up (he's always been a loner so it must have been difficult for him to open up with his darkest secret)
10. Getting amma to forgive him was just an added bonus. The girl he gave his heart to gave him his biggest happiness yet. The forgiveness of his mother.
11. He was hurt when he realised that she didn't tell him abt keerti so jt proved he started expecting her to be honest with him as his wife. It was the first time he was expecting anything from her.
12. Lota incident sealed the deal again as she again chose him before her family. She made him her priority.
13. It was difficult for him to send her to kolhapur but if that's what she wanted. You set love free if it's yours it comes back to you..
I wrote a lot but like I said it was all these incidents that made him love her bit by bit. I've always thought abotj this what made him love her but then realised that it was organic and not something that happened overnight. It was same with Pallavi. Many smaller incidents led to this love.
Also, I believe if the MMS MU didn't happen these both would fall in love as the sparks were all over the place with them since the first meeting.
Tagging Parul since you tagged her