Originally posted by: EkPaheli
It’s fine he was in awe of Noina. He can admire a successful woman who as per him hasn’t allowed her troubled personal life to hamper her growth professionally. He is allowed to appreciate his friends.
His fault isn’t in the above. It’s in him thinking that said friend’s opinions matter more than his wife’s when it comes to their family and kids, their marriage and the decisions they must take towards the same. Had he been consulting Noina regarding business, say where to invest be it in property, stocks or startups to expand his company and had taken her advice over Tulsi’s conservative approach to say investing in gold, land and silver (though that’s where the real money is today and will be forever too) it would have been fine. He could have been justified in saying that Noina has practical market experience and has been in the industry for ages. She knows a thing or two about investing and setting up businesses while Tulsi though well intentioned in her advice is no expert in the field.
The issue arises when you take business advice from family who don’t know how the market works and from friends who aren’t family when it comes to family matters.
I would have had the same opinion had the roles been switched. Tulsi can’t expect another man to look out for her family and kids the way Mihir will, and vice verse. Tulsi can find a male business partner who can help her better than Mihir in terms of expanding her business and investing, but he is not the father of her children, the grandfather, the uncle, the brother etc to the people she’s related too.
That fine line was forgotten by Mihir.
Keeping personal and professional lives separate is not something that a 60 year old man needs instructions for but Mihir has proven it otherwise.
When he believed Pari over Tulsi we could excuse him for an overindulgent parent trusting his favourite child, blinded in his love to her faults. But there are no excuses for him thumping his chest when he got validation from Noina for his decisions and decided to rub them in Tulsi’s face as a mark of his accuracy and superiority.
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