MD, I really like the way you present your views................very precise, consice and extremely lucid!
Love and Respect are interconnected..................they have to co-exist...........but at the same time there are relationships where there is no ''apparent'' respect, but there is tremendous love! But these are few are far in between...........if we talk about real life, I won't be able to come up with one example of a woman who is ready to put up with this sort of behaviour from Angad, no matter how much she loves him.
What is love after all? Isn't it as much about receiving as it is about giving? A Dog is the most selfless of all animals, yet if you keep ignoring the animal, he will stop resonding to you.................no matter how much he loves you, no much however faithful he is to you............and here we are pondering on human emotions!
Man, in the end is a selfish creature................even in selfless love, we try to find something..............if not, then why don't we fall in love with an inanimate object............why don't we fall in love with someone who is dead? We love a living human being, because we consciously or unconsciously expect and hope that we will recieve love back!
Kripa loved Angad because she had a hope that she will receive love back from him.................even after she saw him spending a night with a girl in the Outhouse, even after she saw him drinking away to glory, even after she saw his hypocratic, narasscist side, even after she saw his ruthlessness, even after she saw his unreasonable, ego-centric, obessessive side............she continued loving him, because she wanted to love him and wanted him to love her.
And she will continue doing so........................because as I said before she doesn't know anything apart from loving him! And he can hurt her, destroy her, rubbish her, tear her apart or mutilate her soul in any which way he wants to..............she will still love him!
Women like Kripa might exist in real life.........but I personally do not know of any of them.....and if I did know, I wouldn't relate to them one bit! Love is but a matter of choice, how much one is willing to give himself, how much one is willing to lose himself and howmuch one is willing to destruct himself for it..............the intensity differs, but the sentiment is the same!
Chilly
PS: Believe me MD, I am as confused by my post as you are! I was trying to convey something, but have written something else...........but somewhere I guess you will understand what I actually meant to say!😊