Originally posted by: lagjagale
Long post, lol. But I will try to answer based on my interpretations. First and foremost, this is ITV, but lets ignore that for now cause most Navra shippers do.
I agree that he didn't actually talk to Ak clearly about his love, but he really thought and believed it was self-evident. Even when he went to ask for her hand in marriage to BP, he was going to say which sister, but he didn't (don't remember what exactly happened ). He was just very sure that the signals and signs were enough. I mean, they had this hyper-romantic moment with her in the purple saree too. Sorry, but even for me, all the signs were there for Ak. She got confused because she, at that point, at least honestly believed Arohi was a better match than herself. It's low self-esteem. But I agree that putting her on the spot might have been too much. Even Abhi realized it later, but again, he is put in the spot pretty much always and always responds well to those situations, so it's hard for him to understand that, especially cause they didn't know each other that well at that point. Later once he starts understanding this, he always jumps in to defend her cause he knows she won't do it. But you just can't keep doing things one-sided for long, it has to be reciprocal. Ak was going to reciprocate before the birthday event and everything else ( remember Arohi's convo). But things happened cause she got scared by Arohi and decided to just destroy Abhi so he would leave her alone.
Then Ak's own brother tells her to leave for the peace and even to delete her number so Abhi can't contact her. Her expression then wasn't, yeah, that is prudent, but sad and longing cause she really didn't want any of that. And oh, btw, her planning his bday, yeah, she would have done that for anyone. But would she have defied her brother and sister's wish and decided to stay back in Udaipur just to plan someone's bday?
This is the crux of the problem. Ak's actions do NOT match her words. So every Abhira shipper tries to just interpret her emotions cause that has been the only real thing from the beginning. And she did several things to show that she loved Abhi during the pre-confession time. But she never accepted that she loved him, even just between Abhi and herself. Sorry, but anyone would go crazy trying to interpret her mixed signals.
The other stuff, like the hospital issue, was odd, but there is context for that too. Abhi is to blame for deciding to marry Arohi ( either cause of Manjari or pure spite). He is a gray character, and we expect him to make bad decisions. Ak is also a grey character but is presented as a white character which makes things harder.
I already talked about self-harm multiple times, but again, you are stuck on just one thing without the broader context. I will repeat it for the last time. Throughout Abrogi's marriage rituals, Abhi was trying to get Ak to confess so they can avoid a bad situation down the line. Truth is incessant and always comes out, its better for it to come out sooner than later. Abhi himself was turned around on if Ak actually loved him and didn't want to hurt his family all over again for someone who didn't care for him. But then he found the fire incident photo, and everything suddenly clicked. He realized that her denying things she did was also a part of the facade. It was the wedding day, if there had been time, he might have tried to do something different, but at this point, breaking that facade was the only option, so he took it. Again, he didn't make her break her sister's marriage. He already made the decision to break it when he walked out to see her. After the initial confession, when he could honestly, for the first time, hear her say she loved him - he still gave her all the outs. He asked to run away, but she said no, so they didn't. And when the families confronted them, he was again willing to walk away cause Ak was mum. He didn't say I will die if you don't confess in front of everyone. He just said you will lose me forever 'cause I am done.
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