I also think these shows do a good job of illustrating how love can be too intense- like they try to romanticize how 'great' Abhi's love is for Akshu and it just turns out to be very toxic. Watching these shows, you begin to understand that in six years even your shoes will move on from an old relationship but no he is still hung up. He is SO hung up on her that he can never call her, see how she's doing, wonder if she landed on her feet or not, apologize in any fashion but when he sees her with her family... well then she's his and nobody else's. And his remorse is so endless that he lands in the hospital, breaks mirrors etc.
Like normal people would really move on and move in to hopefully another healthy relationship. What is this, Akshara can never move on for the rest of her life and is only living in a fake relationship. Why not move on, why doesn't she have this right?
Abhi would have had self-reflection and been like, wow that was very toxic and bad behavior and even if I'm still upset with you, I would like to apologize for leaving you in a bad state.
Manjari - I have no idea, her particular form of psychosis is a confusing to me
Also, having someone so obsessed with you is weird. The way he was so angry and pestering Ak in the beginning and insisting that they DO have a relationship (even though neither ever acknowledged anything) was so weird and toxic to me. Like he was badgering her and angry and marrying her sister in-spite or something. I think in real life, if you met someone like this you would be reconsidering your feelings. He put all his emotions on her, like obsessively to the point that if she doesn't act according to his image of her (which no one can) he freaks out and can't handle it, starts to blame her for being her. He never knew her, he only copy & pasted his image of his mom on to her and never gave her any room to be true self in a safe environment.
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