Originally posted by: -Mystery-
I agree with you all about Mahi being hurt. It is an awful time for her and she needs time to recover fully.
But I just don't get the logic behind blaming herself. If the relationship was working out but ended at another note, I would've understood her blaming herself. But this time we can clearly see that Ishan just used her. He was only playing with her emotions. Then why is she blaming herself for it? Why can't she just hate Ishan for being such a jerk?
Because Mahi's very emotionally driven, she succumbs to feelings so easily that it's actually quite amazing. She's also very self concious, what others think matters a lot to her. When have we ever seen Mahi going through something alone? She's always needs a push from Sid/Roshni/Daddy Aloo/Dadi/the gay tenants etc. She used to the world telling her that she doesn't fit in and inwardly she believes it as well therefore she's used to blaming herself first rather then pointing fingers at the real culprits. It's something we call the Labelling Theory and the Self Fulfilling Prophecy in the psychology world.
And that's also the only reason Mahi gives such awesome replies in her column but fails to action it herself - her readers have no idea who Mahi really is. They have no idea how she looks, they have no idea what poeple really think about her hence why she's much more confident.