Originally posted by: austen-eliot
Maa ki khushi was just a cover..his actual purpose in proposing Aarohi was to rub Akshu's face in dirt for her rejection of him...Abhi's love is SELFISH, there is no doubt about it.. It is all about him, never about Akshu. There's no comfort in his love for Akshu, from the moment he felt himself in "the first throes" of passion, he has been in some way or other just complicating Akshu's life.. If his love was truly unselfish and generous he would have.. 1. First approached Akshu in private to ask her if she reciprocates his feelings for her. 2. If at that moment due to Akshu not fully understanding her own heart had rejected him, he would have given her space and then courted her and waited for her to also feel same way for him, bcz he was also aware from first that Akshu was attracted to him. 3. If in the meantime bcz of Aarohi's interference Akshu continued to blow hot and cold, a sensible man like how Abhi is supposed to be would have tried to find out the reason for her behavior and when he found out about the sister dynamics, there could be many ways to get around that without forcing and emotionally manipulating Akshu to declare herself.
This force and control are the defining characteristics of Abhimanyu's love because of the kind of man he is.. I know men like him in real life for whom their idea of love is more important to them than the choices and comfort of the one they profess to love.. It is a punishment to live with such men. They are the worst husbands, justifying every coercion in the name of love and maintaining that they know best what is good for their partner. And invariably such men gravitate towards the quite, submissive type of females who may take time to make their choices in life but are not dumb and definitely know what they want, just take time to get there. But men like Abhimanyu do not give them that time and space and forever force their decisions on them.. The way Abhi first forced her to choose him against her sister and then again pushed her to immediately find peace and happiness in that decision of cutting off her sister from the wedding (which is just the first step in his plan to remove her from Akshu's life entirely) is typical of his character. And it is no point that because he did not send her to jail, this condition was the least he did, or that it was in Akshu's interest. Because sending her to jail was not really an option, as both families are one now.. Abhi could very well see that with aaroo in jail, akshu would be too distraught for her to be happy with him which means he wouldn't be enjoying either.. and also all the bad publicity which would ensue for both families in society and media. So this condition also is a selfish and vindictive step on his part.
And just as an aside, because nobody seems to remember this point in all the discussions on the accident fiasco... 1.Aarohi overdosing and putting her own life at risk firstly was actually because of Abhi unfairly shouting at her and humiliating her in the mandir. 2. The one who actually crashed the car in the haystack was Akshu, not Aarohi because it was akshu who forcibly turned the steering to avoid hitting the kid and so hit the hay behind which apparently Manjari was. Also, to be completely fair to the sisters, they didn't really see that they had hit anyone, just saw that they'd hit the huge haystacks. And it was only Akshu's feeling that there might be something else there. She sensed it and not Aarohi, because she was fully in her senses unlike Aarohi who was drugged. This is definitely different from if they had actually seen themselves crashing into a person and seeing that person fall and then just leaving him/her there. If Abhi had taken them to court, a lawyer would have argued so in defense to prove that legally it wasn't really a hit and run.
Please don't mind my rant here uninvited, on your thread. Just wanted to clear some points which hadn't been considered.
Also, this is not to support all of Aarohi's previous misdemeanors, it's only the details of the accident track.
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