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How cute was he in today's episode??? I can't get enough of his earnest little speech to the sleeping Aarti in the morning and the fact that he told her that any reaction was better than her silence. Yash wants the real Aarti, in all her good and bad, all her laughter and anger, not the facade she puts on to seem like everything is fine, even when it isn't. It is even more touching because this is what is going to hurt Yash the most when he finds out about all the lies... her chuppi, her silence. It is the one thing he can't bear and it also happens to be Aarti's only wrongdoing in this relationship. What a beautiful culmination!
The worst thing that either of them can do to the other is to turn away, anger, frustration, rage is all fine as long as they hold on. More and more I am starting to believe that TC spoiler that Yash will support Aarti wholeheartedly in this ordeal.
Eek. The pota in the oven gets Aarti saath knoon maaf from Gayatri it seems! As much as I would love for the baby to live, I am also dying to see a test of Gayatri's affection and connection with Aarti, if she were to lose the baby. I think until she loses the baby, Yash might be a little distant, though not actively angry in trying to digest and get past the lie, but she will have the support of Gayatri and the family. And then if she loses the baby, that might be the moment when tables turn and Aarti finds out who really loves her unconditionally, when Yash and the kids stand by her unwaveringly!
I LOVED that scene in the morning where Yash removes Aarti's bangles from under her face because they were causing her discomfort. It was so natural and yet so, so, so touching the way he gently moved her hand and took such evident satisfaction in easing even such a small discomfort. It is the much needed, very refreshing and organic variation on the overdone KNPH scene with the sunlight causing the sleeping beloved unease and the adoring lover blocking and exposing the sunlight in turn.
Aarti holding onto his hand was a loop closure for when he held hers after the kidnapping, when he was still unconscious. How far they have come since then, and yet how consistent that unconscious bond has been between them, only waiting for them to realise and embrace it. Yash needed Aarti, something his soul knew from the start and expressed most freely in his subconscious state, when he wasn't inhibited by constructs and principles about love. Here too, Aarti feels pressured by otside forces to handle this whole BMT/pregnancy/lying to Yash situation on her own, but her true need for Yash becomes apparent the only time her heart and soul can speak louder than her mind.
Aside: I really wish Yash would talk to Paridhi about the situation. He did give her a broad hint today, but that is not enough. I mean, he knows that she knows what happened so he can encourage her to tell the truth to Prateek, or make a decision about what she wants to do, given the consequences either way of revealing the MMS. Both Yash and Paridhi need to discuss this, and I think it would be a huge relief to both of them to have at least one other person to share the secret with. But I fear Yash is undermining Paridhi's adulthood by hiding this, really treating her like they treat Prateek. I wonder how the realisation will dawn on Yash that his "chote" is all grown up, and has to face the harsh truths, whether he likes it or not. Maybe Aarti's truth and her justification for it will be the trigger. He will realise that Aarti hid the truth to "protect" their fragile relationship, but also realise that he would have much rather known the truth, even though it was hurtful, than be kept in the dark about his own wife, for whatever reasons. Wishing that Aarti hadn't decided for him and hidden the truth for his own good might just push Yash to give Prateek the burden and responsibility of the whole truth, because no matter how dangerous and painful the truth itself, it can never be as painful as realising you have been kept in the dark about it.
ADDED FROM A LATER POST:
The way I see it, the payal is a loop closure for two things:
1. Arpita's kangan. Yash used to hear and react quite significantly to the sound of Arpita's kangan on Aarti. It used to confuse him when he heard that sound again, when he knew that Arpita was gone from his life, which represented how confused about what place Aarti held in his life. Everyone was trying to fit her into Arpita's spot, give her AKJ as represented by the kangans. Now finally, Aarti has both made her own place in Yash's heart and mind, and distinguished herself completely from Arpita. Aarti has her own sound in Yash's mind and it doesn't confuse him or bring back memories of Arpita... It tells him only one thing: that Aarti is coming.
2. Aarti's dialogue about how she knows Yash's footsteps better than her own heart beat. This continues the theme of footsteps as a means of Aarti and Yash's silent recognition of each others' presence. It is a sign that Yash is starting to sense and feel Aarti as strongly as she senses feels him. Aarti knows Yash so well because she has spent so many months denying her self and throwing her whole being into Yash's pain and his healing. So she knows him inside out. Now Yash is starting to reciprocate, thinking of Aarti before himself, admitting that his happiness is entirely dependent on hers. I think it was a sign that despite all the deception, Yash is getting to know the real Aarti the way she got to know his essence through the whole Arpita ordeal.
3. SInce the kid Payal never gets any attention, they thought at least the object should. 🤔🤣





