Originally posted by: roopshas1
Honestly, she was very protective of her family until the point where they forcefully engaged her to Salman. Prior to that, any of her weddings that were arranged came across as majboori on her family's behalf to Sitara. It was like she thought that they would have never done that if not for the badnaami and they were doing this to restore their honour. But I believe that the moment she was forcefully engaged to Salman despite being "engaged" to Salar (who was clearly going out of his way to protect her from an unwanted marriage by giving her his name) was the point where she began disassociating from her family. Her brother who had given his word betrayed her. The usual taunts regarding her character and broken weddings quickly escalated into verbal, emotional and physical abuse from that point onwards. Her education was forcefully stopped and she was almost a prisoner in her own home. The rotten fruits as shagun, no dowry, barely any dignity was given to her by her own family despite being engaged to be married into her own family. These were no strangers but her own family subjecting her to a humiliation that was caused a chain of events that were initiated by themselves. For them, till the last moment, despite nearly no hope of a decent let alone a good life, she kept fighting to the point she threatened to poison herself in front of the person who was threatening her family. However, the moment her brother abandoned her in the rain and as she correctly pointed out, who knows what could have happened to her when she was alone in the night, it was the person who had been the thorn at her side, who extended his protection, and then even after a brutal rejection, came after her in the rain despite being ill and cold. The moment Salar wrapped her in his shawl, I think Sitara realised that he truly loved her. Not a zid, not an obsession, he loved her. Unconditionally so. And for a person, who is orphaned and abandoned, that one action seeped through her heart and bones reassuring her there is indeed one person in the world who truly cared for her.
I think that moment was the one where Sitara's emotional ties to her family snapped for good. She no longer saw herself as a member of Siddiqui family but as a member of Salar's family. No, I am not talking about the Sikandars. Just Salar himself. He became her priority. Till that point, her priority had been her family, especially the closest family she had left, her brother. But the moment her brother abandoned her and Salar stepped up, her allegiances shifted to Salar and she began viewing him as her new family. Not just fiance. But a new family and the closest one she will have soon. So the huge change makes sense. She longer identified with her family. She no longer cared for them. That night when she tested Salar's love for her, it was her family who had failed her not him. And the moment they failed, he came through and swept her off her feet. Plus true love, the feeling of being genuinely and unconditionally being loved give humans a strength to face the world like never before. Sitara didn't have that before, but with Salar, she now does and you can see her stepping up in her role as his wife. Good for her.
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