I see the spark and falling in love after marriage. But I don't think a 35 year old man naturally falls in love with an 18 year old when he's engaged. So he didn't at the start. He tells her even at his own wedding with Malini that he think she's naive to believe it was real. He is marrying who he likes. Then the wife element of Imlie adds weight to the spark and turns things around.
But at the end of the day, he tried to impose his and Malini's "friendship" even post divorce on her and wanted Imlie to take care of Malini's medicines during her assault-baby pregnancy. He was embracing fatherhood while making no efforts with Imlie after the court case day. There is no justifying that kind of entitlement. It was enough for any girl to fall out of love. Imlie didn't, she has residual feelings, but I did as a viewer.
I was done with him as soon as he said he only thought of his "the child" and deleted the evidence. It was beyond icky that he was with Malini in the first place (not just the assault) and grosser after he was having a child, keeping that woman in the house and hinting strongly to Imlie that she needed to be with him and put up with the child. He didn't even entertain the possibility after deleting the video that Imlie can leave him. He just wondered when she will get over it and forgive him. Whether she wants to be with a man having a child with her sister was never a question for him cause he took that love for granted. He gave her the decision to let Malini stay but really just wanted Imlie to be nanny to Malini and baby as soon as she did what he always knew she would. There is not coming back from that.
Edited by Marybarton - 3 years ago