Originally posted by: looseseal
But she did blame him. She has never once said Nandini stole him from Mouli (if she has please refer me to the episode). If you are saying she cannot say anything to Nandini at all then its other thing. But to insist that somehow Nandini has absolutely no role in this and this is all Kunals doing is very biased. You are sayinfg radhika, dida, mouli, kunal are dysfunctional for not talking but what about nandini? Wasnt she part of family, wasnt she the bff, so why are you again turning around and saying radhika is being dysfunctional for demanding answers? y
in a marriage counseling perspective, blaming the 3rd party actually doesn't solve or mend the relationship. from counselor's perspective, if a marriage has to be mended, the responsibility lies with the husband and wife because they are the two who got married. what the 3rd party did or did not do is not part of the consideration because to mend a relationship, it has to be the 2 of them. that is why only the husband and wife are called in. not even other family members like children, in-laws or parents ever go for these sessions and neither are their inputs taken.
both the spouses would need to put in lot of work but the one who cheated has to put in more as the trust has to be rebuilt. they have to acknowledge their wrongdoing, ask for apology and work on the issues that led them to taking those steps. with the spouse who got cheated, they have to forgive, heal as well as accept if there were behaviours/dynamic that may have contributed to the relationship breaking down. so from a counseling perspective, it is always and only the spouses who go in for these sessions. (this is all from what my cousin sister has shared with me and she works in the field)
now, am saying radhika is dysfunctional because she has never talked to her son. her talking to nandini is all good and expected as she knew nandini and she felt a breach of trust. so she can give all the lectures and hold nandini accountable for her actions. what is hard to digest for many of us is their attitude to kunal. he is not some 5 year old child. he is a grown man who has brains to think and function. where is his accountability for his actions?
episode after episode, I kept thinking that these women will sit down kunal and ask what happened. question his behaviour. fight with him. absolutely nothing. he was there for one month and they didn't do a single step towards mending the relationship between mauli and kunal. no communication. no finding out what happened. no sitting them down together or separately. instead mauli gets all the lectures. when there's issue in the house and one that is caused by her son's behaviour, as a mother, she needs to talk to her son no? what's so great about giving him 2 slaps in front of mauli but not actually talking to him? she is his mother. if the mother can't talk to her son, then isn't the family dysfunctional?