It’s your personal interpretation which is absolutely fine - they haven’t really given Zaid a lot of focus so I feel no two people are ever going to agree on him anyway. Until he himself does so in the show with actual “words” lol
Ayra is not the only one he’s told ILYs too. He’s told Asif he loves her too. His words were literally “We are in love and I want to marry her” - and his actions speak louder than his words anyway. He left everything for Ayra. His world, his family. Not once, but TWICE. On top of that he was ready to divorce MJ , the supposed “old flame”, not once but TWICE. In every way it’s been portrayed that he’s moved on happily and doesn’t think twice about getting rid of MJ.
So in my head it makes more sense if it was just a crush and he then later set up these walls in place around her to protect himself. Because if it was really such strong feelings in the past, the lengths he went to to torture MJ were too extreme imo. It would actually make him even MORE toxic than he was being in that moment for me. And that doesn’t sit well with me at all. I already hate him for his attitude towards MJ post marriage and cornering her about divorce like that - now I’m supposed to put their past into the equation as well? That he’s doing all this to someone he liked before? Whatever the justification, that just makes him even more petty and cruel.
I hope this makes sense… for you it was probably his defence mechanism kicking in. For me, it’s just a more extreme version of him being a red flag. You simply can’t do that to someone you supposedly cared about at some point in your life. It makes it all more cruel and vengeful. And it was cruel enough already
so I can’t romanticize that version of Zaid , that this was all because of suppressed feelings. No, he was just a horrible petty person and now this new information makes his behavior even more inexcusable
Edited by tgota92 - 1 years ago
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