Keeping my opinion about this adoption sequence aside, I feel sorry for Anu and Anuj, as they do not have a family who is happy in their happiness. When they have forgotten/forgiven/accepted every mistake/crime/misbehavior and are still doing it plus helping every individual in this family with all that they have!
In real life I might have experienced some of it and I felt suffocated. I wonder how these two feel for having to justify every action while they have sacrificed for every individual in the family one way or another.
Also it is not weird at all for Anuj to want a baby at this time. We all evolve with time and we do not seek same things throughout our lives. As Anuj fulfilled his dream to marry Anu, he moved on to seek next thing in his life. A kid, a complete family for himself. I am not saying only a kid completes your family btw.
All of the family members expressed their selfish reasons for not accepting that little kid, that itself shows how true their love is. There is nothing wrong for Anupama to accept adopting Anu for the man who has fulfilled her every dream and loves/respects
and by the way my 5yr old and 7 yr old were much more mature and accepting with the life changes they had to deal with! Anupama's 20+ kids, please grow up! Toshu and Kinjal do not need anyone else but themselves to raise their baby. Off course they will need guidance, but they cannot stop someone else from living their lives just because they did not use protection.
About Baa and Vanraj's reaction, I don't give a hoot as they are not family members per my opinion.
First of all thanks for tagging me. I did not know you are also a mom, I would have tagged you in my other post and would love to read your opinion as well.
When you love someone so much that you even sacrifice yourself for them and in return they don't even think two cents about you hurts a lot, a lot. I understand that for Anupama's kids it would have been an unwanted surprise but the least they could do is trust their mom. That mom who did so much for them. I have a younger brother and I won't lie that even I have felt the jealousy that my mom loves him more because he is a boy 😅. But over time I have realized that she loves both of us equally and since I am elder she expects me to behave rationally. A mom can definitely be little partial towards one of the children but no way she can stop loving any of them.
I wanted the makers to show Anuj's bond evolving with Anupama's children. In my personal experience, I have seen children considering someone else as their father/mother figure because of many reasons. So that is not something uncommon.
About love, I said in my other post that I do not like the way love is portrayed in ITV: claiming ownership of someone's life, having over the top expectations, making someone dependent on yourself etc etc. Mostly people love anyone because of a reason and when that reason cease to exist we get to see the real love. That is what happened in Anuj's/Anupama's case. All of them have their expectations and reasons. They saw their expectations might not be fulfilled hence the reaction. I have always thought love in any form is unconditional but lately I have realized it is not, there always would be a reason.
"Family could be a lot of things, beautiful, strong, helpful, supportive and it could also be choking. The expectations family places on you could be the burden that will ruin you." - Credit to the owner.
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