Originally posted by: inlieu
He didn't change 100% for Pallavi, and this why I think some viewers are shocked. She thought she'd changed him totally but he never did. He changed towards her and his family to a certain extent and conformed to her image of a "perfect" partner but now she's challenging the darker side of him that she'd never come face to face with before. She knows about his tragic past but I don't think she connects.
It's not easy to be the wife of such a man so if she feels she can't cope, I totally understand if she wants to walk out. But as Shivangi said in her post, Pallavi will choose him every time. She will fight for their love because beneath all this madness is the pure heart who made her heart sing.
Also, love isn't supposed to be logical. Sometimes, neither is commitment. Look at Sharda or Milind. Their spouses are obnoxious but they still adjust and live with them, even though as outsiders we feel we could never tolerate them. Every person's threshold of tolerance is different and Sharda and Milind made a conscious decision to remain married to their spouse. It's easy for us to say they should leave them (heck I've advocated many times for Sharda to divorce Sanki), but then again, we aren't in the shoes of Sharda or Milind and can't make decisions for them, no matter how much we hate their spouses and want them to leave. Same with Pallavi, only she can decide what she wants to put up with and when she says bas bohot ho gaya.
As for middle ground, that possibility went out the window the moment she decided to go with her rubbing salt in your wounds simple living. She took an extreme position, albeit with good intentions, so he went to the other. This was bound to happen.