Originally posted by: Kalma007
Another point: Kalyani needs to point out in one of their arguments that Malhar is her husband,he needs to behave like one,stop behaving too much like a father and making decisions for her without consulting her or asking her opinion or openly discussing an issue with her... she already has a father figure in Kaka.
If she's old enough to handle responsibilities related to motherhood,being a DIL and all that comes with it,she's old enough to decide if she wants to have a physical relationship with her husband,inless... Malhar isn't over his first wife and this so called concern for Kalyani's education is a way to hide that from her and keep her too occupied with other things to worry about their sex life ... the fact that Kalyani could doubt him like this could enrage/make Malhar desperate enough to convince her otherwise to do something drastic.
Malhar doesn't get to dictate all aspects of their married life,even if it's done out of concern and love.
I agree with you but I don't think the reason is because he is not over Sampada. I think he's fully over Sampada, the more I discovered their relationship, the more I feel like it was a pretty superficial relationship where Sampada was just pretending to be the perfect wife and daughter and Malhar was just doing his duty as a husband and part of that duty was to love his wife. Malhar didn't question anything, his feelings or Sampada's suspicious behavior cause he was too "honorable" and he didn't grow up with his parents, so he was just emulating what a marriage should be and so was Sampada.
With Kalyani, it's completely different. He started his journey to fatherhood with Kalyani, he went through his betrayal with Kalyani, they have been through so much and he's completely dependent on her now. It's always the emotionally vulnerable person in the relationship that becomes dependent. Kalyani was also emotionally vulnerable but she became dependent on Anupriya not Malhar, which is has now brought an interesting imbalance to their relationship.
As for the sexual abstance, I think it's guilt. Before, like someone said, he was simply not attracted to her cause he hated Kalyani's guts. Malhar isn't the type to think with his sexual urges. But the minute he fell in love with her sometime during that KarVa marriage track, he became sacred that Kalyani would grow to resent him, which is his guilt coming out. He's terrified of her resenting him and leaving him as a result one day. So that's why I think he's staying away from her physically so she doesn't feel like he used her for sex and that's why Malhar is so, so determined to make sure Kalyani is educated, so she doesn't feel like it is Malhar's fault that she was unable to achieve her dreams like Atul said she would.