re: ushna
vibha -- to be honest, am not sure how she feels comfortable enough to be even in sufiyan's presence. that does not make sense to me and it makes even less sense that shehroze would send her there without a bulldog to protect. š
but like I mentioned in my post, if we keep aside the sufiyan business, can see her attending because she wants to show that she is zainab's daughter. again, I will refer to another of my extended relatives.
so I don't know all the details because I am not too familiar with that family. they are rather rich but they didn't have a child and adopted a boy. people do speak highly of him as a genuinely nice person. however, there were also oldies relatives who taunted he was adopted. maybe they wanted a share and thought it was unfair that some adopted kid was getting the money? whatever it was, his parents ignored the bunch and wrote everything in his name. he was also very good to his parents and his mother found a girl among her relatives and got him married -- so basically tied him more to her.
now, years later, these moron relatives are alone and elderly. their kids are either settled abroad or working in another city. this means, he is the default go-to person for whenver these people fall sick or in need of some help. despite all their taunts, he still goes and helps them out. maybe he sees it as community service or they are just relatives nonetheless. who knows.
anyway my point is that dramas happen in families just like the stuff you mentioned with your father's cousin. however, people still keep ties and still keep going to functions. I think the younger generation have far less community feels but with the older generation, they are far more tied. so despite the nonsense that happens, they still want to maintain some amount of kinship at least for name sake. thats how I see ushna. if she cut these people off, then it would be like proving she is adopted and she has no one.
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