1st and foremost I’m not trying to justify Pals actions in the M track but it is also true that I’m shocked to see Raghav boldness by keeping Easha in his house and his visits to her room at night when he clearly doesn’t want his wife to know anything about it . See Pals dumbness was quite evident in M track but this track is way more elaborated and disgusting and impactful bcoz Raghavs proceeded with the knowledge of Eashas feelings for him while Pals proceeded with none . Yes none of them wanted to cheat on their partners but for Pals she was drugged without her knowledge while RR by his own admissions doesn’t remember anything after getting sloshed . So yeah I would say he did a huge blunder there .Originally posted by: joliefemme
Let me try and put across my perspective. You may not like it but feel free to ignore.
Yes, Pallavi didn't have the drugged kheer that night but she willingly chose to stay back in D house. How much ever she was upset with Raghav, he is her husband at the end of the day. She should have not promised VD to stay back to treat Mandar indefinitely without consulting Raghav. There she was at fault despite her noble intentions and complete honesty.
Raghav willingly got into a drinking session with his ex who harboured feelings for him. But tell me one thing can you blame him for drinking with the ex, did he know she would take advantage of his drunken state? She was his friend who literally destroyed her life for saving his. He held a grudge against her for such a long time and he felt relieved that was not the case. Hence he indulged in a stupid drinking game till he was sloshed. If there was an ex who was positive most of us would not have found his actions questionable. There are so many people who are friends with people who like them, it's not like everyone literally stays away from friends because they have one sided feelings right.
While it was utterly stupid of him and a huge huge mistake, I don't see him as doing this intentionally to hurt Pallavi. Here he was a victim because Esha closed in on him. Right now he's hiding because he thinks he slept with Esha, if that were not the case, he would have come as clean as P did.
Also, I don't know how many people observed in the Mandar drugged kand. After Amma and R left and Aayi promised to be near Pallavi, she literally left the next second and a drugged Pallavi was with Mandar alone in the room. You can go back and check, I know coz I was literally screaming into the TV at aayi for being so careless about it. I'm not blaming Pallavi here but the circumstances are literally the same. If Mandar did cross the line and Pallavi didn't remember, she would literally be in the same state as R or lost as to what happened.
I agree totally when you say that R is at fault for hiding this from P because it takes away her agency to decide. While I understand his actions, I don't condone them. That is precisely the reason why he will give an agnipariksha and lots more and P was back in his life without as much as a sorry (because she wasn't at fault).
As far as emotional cheating goes, Esha is emotionally manipulating Raghav and the idiot is falling for it. But he's not emotionally cheating on Pallavi. According to me what qualifies as emotional cheating is when you have feelings for the other person, Raghav here only feels for Pallavi and not Esha.
As for Pals doing wrong by staying at D house yea she did a big blunder there but she primarily went there bcoz she was angry with RR for the tracker and later VD manipulated her while here Easha is doling that job . Now I wanna blame Pals too for Bringing hubby’s ex to live with them but in her defense only thing is she didn’t know about the hotel fiasco hence she did that blunder . Still I would blame her today for not putting her foot down and force RR to stay Easha to some safe house instead of trying to take things in her own hands . Anyway I would want to wait and watch what’s coming in the future but I feel we’re up for some more heartbreaks till things get ok and RR is up for some more bashing by the SM FD