The Paakhi we know, a person who tries to look at things from another person's point of view, she was constantly doing it with Anshuman, she did it with Lavanya, AAYAN, Reah and at one point Veer.
Here even when he logically explained it to her he has no hopes or expectations from her, and that it is indeed possible to love again in one life time, she started hurling accusations and calling him names. ( Even when Anshuman called her characterless she never retaliated like that and instead handled her self with the utmost dignity!)
I agree with you all the person she is running from is not Veer but herself.
TO borrow Madam selfish's term. "She is no longer Anshuman's Paakhi, but now she is Veer's Paakhi"
Anshuman's" Paakhi can not be unfaithful to him. "Veer's" Paakhi is not strong enough to fight the 19 years she spent as Anshuman's Paakhi but "Veer's Paakhi is putting up a fight.
She looked genuinely scared when she though he was dead, she became extreamly agitated when Lavanya tried to drag her out the house, she put herself at risk in facing his wrath coming to tell him that his near and dear mother figure is after his life and property, knowing at that point he probably would not believe her.
His Jabs to her do hurt her try as she might to ignore, that is where "Anshuman's Paakhi steps in and she acts like she did not here anything he said.
The Problem in all this, in my opinion is the fact she is neither "Anshuman's Paakhi" or Veer's Paakhi" She is Paakhi's Paakhi, her own person. But for some God awful reason , these people believe a woman has to be seen belonging to a man, so she is either Anshuma's or Veer's. You don't here Lavanya reffering to herself as GIRISH's LAVANYA do we , in fact that would be laughable!!!
What she is is a woman, who as a child was married of to another child, they had a connection call it kismet but they were meant to be together for a while. ... She waited 18 years for him, fell in love with a faceless man , then fell in love with the real man, who was as she found out not perfect but flawed. she loved him anyway, because by that point, as Anonee said, that is what she was told was righ, it was now her second nature. She might not have liked his actions ...but she was a woman of dignity, who who honor her commitment to this man.
It paid of she got the love she wanted and it lasted to short a time. An overly short time.
THen she met Veer, a man with a personality, and thoughts that matches hers in almost every way. A man who went through a situation similar to hers, some one she can understand.
He is quite, quirky unpretentious, he accepted her for her not only accepted it, but admired her from day one! It is dificult for her not to like him, because despite her saying he is no good, she quickly falls back into a comfortable space with him, during the AAyan's fiasco, knowing he was against her, she still sort out his help to cook. She claimed she did not trust him , but yet she handed over the two most precious things in her life to him, AAYAN and Anshuman's business. She choose him over Aryaman...and told every one she saw his qualities as best ones for her son.
Putting a Label like love for her feelings for him is rubbing "Anshuman's Paakhi the wrong way.
But if we take away the Lables, and let her simply be "Paakhi"... A woman who was a part of a fairy tale love story, with Anshuman who waited 18 years for her prince, that she found and through him has a a short but great love story. He thought her that fairy tales do come true...and would forever be apart of her...
A woman, who lived through the terrible loss of that man, then discovered a great friendship , care and companionship in the form of Veer, and learned to love again. she would not be at th cross roads she is in now, because she would be at peace with herself, that she loved Anshuman with everything, and what we had is irreplaceable. But I am blessed with Veer as a companion and loving him is just as worth it, for he understands me as no one else can.
She is after all, Just Paakhi..