Arohi has been given everything but the “ulta” feet by the writers to drive it home to us she’s a no.1 chudail to Akshara. But that doesn’t make Abhi’s actions ok. He told her family that this was an arranged marriage where companionship and support is more important than love. Remember as of now he DOESNT know Arohi lied - all he knows is Arohi likes him, she persuaded her sister to defend his honor against Ruby’s accusations, she saved him from the fire and she prayed for his beloved Maa health. Then look at how he treats Arohi (a person he thinks saved his life) - won’t look at her or talk to her, refuses to give her a lift and is acting towards her sister as if she’s the one he’s engaged to (can’t get over the “normal” episode where he grabs her physically and LIES to Arohi they were just talking). And the possessiveness is just gross - he can marry Akshara’s sister, she can’t even talk to another dude? WTF? He is definitely not behaving with Tameez to anyone, leave alone acting companionably or politely to the woman he asked to marry.
I’ve brought this up before but he only stipulated he can’t give Arohi any love. A marriage is more than a wedding. Even people in arranged marriages share a room, a bed, finances, emotional support and fidelity to each other right? He didn’t say he won’t give her the basic rights of marriage. So that’s the unspoken expectation here from everyone in both families including Arohi. Does Abhimanyu really think his mother is going to be happy with just a wedding and not demand pota/poti?
Abhimanyu is a surgeon - he must have some brains and maturity and hopefully integrity too. Arohi did not actively manipulate him yet - he jumped to all the wrong conclusions himself while she kept strategically silent and then he made the dumb impulsive decision to marry the sister of the girl he loves instead of literally any other woman on earth. And he’s just making things worse instead of behaving sensibly and talking to his dimwit mother to explain the situation to her (remember all his former cozy confiding chats with her - what happened there?). God help his patients if this is how he thinks under pressure in the OT!
He keeps saying he cant help canoodling with Akshara, after all it’s not like he’s breaking the Hippocratic oath. He is a total hypocrite and his actions are disgusting. The fact he and Akshara are in love does not justify them - in the eyes of several of us anyway, I’m done debating with those who feel differently at this point.
Every man committing infidelity uses two excuses- he’s in love and/or his current partner has some deficiencies. Abhimanyu is acting like this without any idea of Arohi’s dark side - thats a stain on HIS moral character, regardless of the stains on hers. The exact same track played out with Kartik and Naira where they justified an EMA by demonizing Vedika into a crazy person. So its a standard play by DKP - this is just awful regressive unimaginative writing by them. But showing illicit romance between prospective jija/Saali is B-movie level nauseating to watch for me 🤢