Originally posted by: AreYaar
Woh toh I've also said many times before that Ak doesn't have a fundamental understanding of love only😆......I was just going for a different point regarding Abhira's different approaches to love here.
It has been a running theme of the story that Abhi is equal parts enamored and frustrated by Ak's core traits of impulsiveness and thinking more for others before herself. Let's put aside whatever the mess of the 8 months of the leap have been....I'm talking core traits here....and it's been consistent from Abhi's side that this is what he loves about her but at the same time, this is what leads to clashes between them as well....and he has never been able to hate these traits even though these have caused rifts between them.....cuz the same traits still keep pulling him back to her too.
But for Ak, it didn't work that way....his core traits didn't keep pulling her back to him....she had a different set of traits she loved about him and a different set of traits she disliked....and the traits she felt hurt by became the sum of him in her eyes....she never even attempted to love him as a whole....it was always in parts for which part worked for her, which part didn't. Again, this can tie back to her basic flawed understanding of love. She demands absolution but isn't really ready to give it herself....her lack of introspection fails her as a person many times over....and then some cycle of pain or heartbreak descends on her so she regresses even further as a person rather than actually becoming a stronger, more self-aware person.
I won't say that when you love someone, you can't hurt them.....Abhi also hurt her by letting her down on WD even though he loved her just as much then as he does now.....but as you said, we could always see the devastation on Abhi's face that any pain he caused her, he himself was feeling too - we could see that he was basically an open wound walking around in a haze after losing her. Ak went in the opposite direction because she claims WD hardened her as a person so she no longer felt anything when she hurt him....there isn't much for us to grasp from her POV cuz the makers never gave it....lol they spent 8 months showing her giving no reaction to Abhi's pain and over-reacting to Nav's slightest discomfort....only a few times the mask slipped like when Abhi had the accident....so since the narrative is inconsistent, we can't say for sure Ak never felt any pain while seeing Abhi in pain.....but for the sake of my argument here, I'm going to presume that she simply compartmentalized Abhi's traits to forcefully hate him so that she doesn't remember what she loved about him. Meanwhile for Abhi, he could never seperate the two set of traits, that is why his love remained boundless and eternal.
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