Amma

It is possible that CV's are potraying Amma as a psycho or may be she is really evil in nature. She hates Pratigya because her son loves her a lot. She wants that affection towards her. She may be acting this way because of lack of love towards her. It is possible that she may not have been loved by her parents either because she is a girl on one hand. On the other hand, her parents may have married off her early so she may have missed that affection early in her life. SS on the other hand has also been abusing her. There are lot of parents who ill treat their daughters and dote on their sons. This is not only villages, it happens in cities too. This is very common in India. We did not see any type of affection towards her from SS either, except recently when Amma had burns. Probably he was showing off to put all the blame on Pratigya. On the other hand there are people like Amma and SS who ruin relationships and destroy their own childrens's life. Even well educated Couples marriage and life has been ruined by parents because of their evil nature and obsessive love towards their children.

True completely agree with you people like Amma do exists who destroy their own childrens life out of jealousy or for some other reasons.

If one backtracks and looks into the psychological and emotional profile of a person since infancy, it may shed light on the person they have become today. Abuse of any kind comes from the need to control by people who feel out of control within themselves. It is often triggered by an emotional need since childhood that has not been satisfied. Children by their very nature are innocent, the feedback they get from the adults around them teaches them how to live and survive in the world they are exposed to on a daily basis..

Let's take a look at Takurain. There are several possibilites here. Chances are

She was raised in a household where she was doted upon but her father controlled her mother and she saw that as the way of life as adults

She was raised in a household where she was doted upon and her father was loving to her mother

She may have been married off early (let's assume there is a bit of an age difference between SS and Takurain) and wanting a loving relationship in her marriage but SS saw providing for his wife and family as the way he showed his love expressed it in a way that didn't meet her emotional need. Often marriages run into a rut bec' the expectations and the expressed don't match.

GD once mentioned SS's Dad was an abuser and Krishna had told Prats about his grandpa the night Prats ran to Takurain's rescue the first time. SS may have emulated his father and abused his wife. It was a way of keeping control feuled by fear and anger.

Takurain's hatred of Prats stems from her jealousy that her own son loves his wife so deeply, something she's yearned for all the years of her marriage. Recently she found the courage to ask SS point blank why he doesn't learn to love her the way Krishna loves Prats. She also hated Prats for rejecting her son on their wedding night and standing up to SS about the name change. It stems from anger at herself for her inability to stand up to SS the way Prats did from the beginning. She hid behind the kayda kaanoon of the house. She has talked back to SS many times since Prats came into the family. Much as she might hate it she has drawn her strength to stand up for herself on occasion watching Prats. As an abused herself, she didn't stop KN from abusing his wife. She is relieved Komal is bully enough to scare the Saxes.

How will she react if at the rate Adars is going he turns violent some day and abuses Komal? Will that be a wake up call to SS and SDS at that point? The Takurs are master at double standards. They get hot under the collar if a little thing bugs Komal at her sasural, yet the way they treat their bahus is less than decent at times.

Will write more later... nice topic to discuss.