Which son did manjiri lose? Oh yeah, the step-son whom she hid from his father for no real reason and watched silently as he was humiliated and abused by his own father his entire life and treated like an outsider/ burden by his family elders. She never even gave a proper justification for why she never told the family or neil he was actually harsh's son, not even considering to tell the truth when she saw how he was being ill-treated and ridiculed by his own father who she let believe was an orphan.
Abhir is akshara's own son whom she had a justification for hiding, that being that she was cruelly thrown out/ divorced by her husband who didn't bother to actually look back to find out what state she was in and continued his ranting and insulting even when despite him throwing her out of his life she tried to contact him to tell him the truth about still being pregnant with one surviving twin. She got fed up of trying only to be met with his insults so decided to choose her self-respect and raising her son with the help of a man who stuck by her in her entire pregnancy and helped in ensuring her child was born.
I say that is a far better justification and worthy of sympathy for akshara as a mother than that step mother who actively ruined her step son's life and never actually apologised to her step-son for it and instead acted solely like the victim in the situation and never gave a justification for why she hid the truth.
Another thing, there is no legal obligation for a mother to have to inform the father about the child, but even then despite being divorced and thrown out by her husband akshara at least tried to contact him to tell him truth but he rejected contact with her.
Manjiri on other hand is not even neil's biological mother but knowingly adopted him, took him to live in the same house as his biological father and decided she will not inform the biological father about his child and instead allow him to insult and humiliate his own son thinking he is an orphan adopted and brought to his house without his permission whilst she watches on.
Harsh being a terrible father and husband is another issue altogether, but manjiri is a terrible mother herself who ruined her step-son's life and gave no justifications for her actions and upon truth reveal she made the entire thing about how she had been wronged by harsh but not how she and harsh both had wronged neil and cheated him.
I have no sympathy for manjiri, in the same way she had no sympathy for neil being abused by his own father because she chose to hide the truth from them both. Biggest hypocrite is manjiri then, who herself hid a son from a father for years, and is crying foul when her daughter-in-law does it to her ass of a son who loves playing divorce-sorry-repeat.
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