Hello! I'm new to Viraasat forum, a KS-regular instead, but I read this discussion and wanted to make a small point...
I personally think Kunal is a very honest but stubborn person. He has never hidden his meetings with Anu, neither from his father nor from his wife. Whenever he has helped her, he has done so purely because she is his best friend.
Therefore, I think that the problems being caused in their marriage is actually Gargi's fault! I can understand a wife being jealous, but I would also have thought that a wife would know her husband better than anyone else. She should know that he is a decent person and has always been a good husband, never previously having given her any reason to complain - and so, if he is telling her that he and Anu are just friends then she should believe him.
As far as I remember she has never caught the two of them in any "compromising" position - so her jealousy and anger seems to be based not on any valid reason, but on her own insecurities and narrow mind.
She seems to be totally unable to get her head around the fact that Kunal and Anu share a platonic relationship only - Anu might love him, but Kunal has never said the same! His stubbornness is in continually meeting Anu anyway because he rightfully believes that he should not have to give up on his friend just because his wife doesn't trust him!
Gargi continually uses her own child as a form of emotional blackmail, she uses derogatory terms about Anu and she constantly insults Kunal's morals and character - and then she wonders why he is beginning to hate her?!!
Perhaps if she had shown a little understanding and faith in her husband then Kunal would never even think of giving up on their marriage, but as it stands, he is right in thinking that it is better to have one painful end to the relationship rather than drag a dead relationship for the rest of your life. In the long run it is better for all of them, including Shaina, if Gargi and Kunal go their separate ways, rather than spend the rest of their life together and fighting every time Kunal does something that Gargi doesn't approve of.
My opinion, no offence meant! 😊
Edited by Cordelia - 18 years ago