Mihir honestly didn’t deserve the smooth forgiveness he got in S1. He had a one night stand with Mandira, broke Tulsi’s trust, and yet the story allowed him to move forward without truly earning back her trust and respect. That’s not the behavior of a strong husband it just showed weakness and selfishness of Mihir. Ideally she shud not have forgiven him but story demanded Tulsi accepting back Mihir coz she was a Sanskaari lady and sanskaar in ITV logic is directly proportional to forgiving sins of husband. Tulsi forgave him not because he deserved it, but because the show wrote her as the “ideal wife” who always puts family above self. Back then I believe audience accepted this because they were used to seeing the woman sacrifice and keep the household intact, no matter what. So I suppose Tulsi staying was presented as noble and strong, when in reality, it was unfair to her.
The truth is, people loved the Tulsi Mihir pairing so much that they overlooked his flaws. As far as I have read Kyunki was supposed to be a story of widow remarriage. She was supposed to marry Anupam but there was nationwide outcry to bring back Mihir and story was changed. But from today’s perspective, it’s clear Tulsi carried that marriage with her dignity, while Mihir stumbled to his temptations and the script gave him more grace than he really earned.
In short I would say Tulsi continued life with Mihir because the narrative demanded sacrifice, and audience were rooting for Mihir-Tulsi. But tbh Tulsi deserved far better than what she got.
Edited by Me_Harini - a day ago
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