Originally posted by: The_Best
I wish they would show that, but they aren’t showing that. They are giving him punishment for physical cheat, not for the emotional/mental cheating because Mihir and Tulsi both don’t count that as cheating. May be because the writers themselves don’t see that as cheating or they know it’s cheating but aren’t showing it that way and instead giving him punishment for physical cheating (which most likely hasn’t happened) because for trp audience a man spending time with another woman or taking care of a friend isn’t strong enough reason for a wife to leave him. That’s why they are instead focusing on the physical aspect of the cheating which is sad as emotional cheating is extremely hurtful and damaging and something they should’ve focused on it. But I hate how itv never focuses on it. Irl I have seen so many being hurt by it. For some emotional cheating is even worse than physical cheating. They are showing Tulsi completely okay with Mihir being at noina’s house and all other times when he didn’t have proper boundaries with her. They showing through Tulsi and viewers that only actual sex intercourse is bad for a man but other actions are all fine.
I am only enjoying the slaps and this treatment of Mihir because of his emotional cheating and the disrespect treatment he has given to Tulsi so far this season, but other than that the physical cheating isn’t what’s making me cheer for it as regardless of sex or not he was drunk and that too completely with not just one sip of alcohol but he had drunk multiple bottles that night. So even if it did happen it isn’t physical cheating. Noina was in senses and completely took advantage of it. Sadly, she’s being given completely clean chit by makers as if whitewashing Pari wasn’t enough that now I have to see her being glorified too.
This is happening because of one simple reason - there is no way to define emotional infidelity, while there’s nothing ambiguous when it comes to sexual infidelity.
Doesn’t matter if you kissed someone other than your spouse, engaged in phone/cyber sex with them or exchanged raunchy pictures with them with provocative texts or had sex with them, irrespective of what form, how many times or for how long - all of these are clearly defined things.
There’s a reason we can never quite be friends with an ex we dated for a long time, while being in a relationship with someone else, irrespective of what modern society would have us believe - memories of that relationship are clearly associated with physicality, of an intimacy that was once shared between the two. You can hug your friends, you can weep on their shoulders or let them weep on yours; you may even share a bed with them if the occasion arises but you clearly know the difference between being in bed with a friend and a lover. You don’t do anything with a friend, even if you can chat yourselves to sleep with them, but you don’t cross a line.
Mihir’s emotional infidelity is intangible, it’s vague and can be defended against by stating this was not an act of having an intimate emotional relationship with someone other than his wife, but rather a friendship where he found a patient ear and a willing shoulder to cry on, an understanding that he needed at the time to sustain his own sanity.
There are always ways to say that when your spouse suspects you of emotional infidelity, they’re being suspicious, they’re being mean, selfish, uncaring, uncooperative etc. You can always play ball there and get away with it because there nothing physical has happened and hence you might yourself believe you did no wrong even if your spouse feels like you are doing them and your relationship with them a disservice. You can say that he/she has started thinking things that don’t exist and if there’s one thing in the world that has no cure it’s suspicion. You either believe someone or you don’t.
So how do you punish someone accused of emotional infidelity? How many people in your own family and amongst your friends will understand your feelings regarding something like that? They will ask you to be more understanding, patient, talk to someone, yada yada.
But when things become physical, even if it’s a text message, a picture exchanged and nothing more - things are tangible and no one can tell you it’s all in your head.
This is why Mihir can’t be punished for emotional infidelity as he can be for physical infidelity, even if it hasn’t happened because at this point the very fact that he himself believes that it may have happened is not boding well for him.
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