I disagree - she has every reason to be apprehensive. I can assure you I would have left by now.
She was NEVER truly welcomed in this house.
She has CONSTANTLY been made to feel like a second class citizen since before the wedding - by being compared to Paridi, by having been given less gifts, to less $$, to more responsibility to comments like 'it's not YOUR first time, you SHOULD know this, you DON'T get this, etc.
She was told to leave Ansh behind. She had to beg to keep him with her.
She has been treated like her sole purpose is to be a mother to Payal and Palak, not Ansh. While some would argue she is obsessive about Ansh, I would say her MIL and FIL expect her to forget he exists.
She has witnessed, and kept it under wraps, the locking of Ansh.
She has stood by, albeit not quietly, when the decision of something as big as a school change, was taken out of her hands.
Remember - she has been the SOLE decision maker of Ansh's life. So even if a good one, a decision made that impacts Ansh NEEDs her approval before it's executed. As it would have been had Ansh been Yash and her son.
As for taking care of PayPal - she's doing her duty, just like Yash is trying his. THe difference is - Yash doesn't understand his own daughter's machinations while Aarti understands her son very well.
Someone made a comment about being anxious regarding a new school - heck yeah a mother would be anxious!!! My oldest is now 9 and I can assure you, ANY place he goes for the first time, I go. If just to be there silently, in the back ground, incase he needs me. And let me tell you - out of the 5 soccer games this season, the only one that I had to step away from for 40 minutes is the one he came out of to ask where his mom was. He never does that, because he knows mommy is there. But when he noticed I wasn't, he wanted to know where I was. Kids are like that - they won't come to you, or tell you they want you there, but they want you there. They don't even know it, but they do. And it's EVERY mother's prerogative to go ANYWHERE their child is going.
I don't understand this angst against Arti - just don't get it.
But I will end with her stmt she made today - if Yash took responsibility of the decision for the new school, he took responsibility of Ansh's safe keeping - so where is Ansh. Great point Aarti - I hope this shakes Yash into thinking what the heck happened. I just hope this doesn't turn into another 'what a rebellious child Ansh is' sequence.
-S