Originally posted by: mango.falooda
one my favourite romance novels (mills & boon) was about a second marriage for both characters. so both couples go through IVF. years later they find out the hospital made a mistake because the last names were very similar and so the embryos were swapped. at this point when they find out, FL has lost her husband to cancer and ML lost his wife to heart attack. so they are single but still grieving the loss of their spouses. but to solve this quandrum, the ML suggests getting married and raising both girls together.
I read a lot of romance novels but the reason this stuck with me is how the conflict is of past good memories. both ML and FL had great relationships and they loved their spouses. so they have these ideas and expectations on the second marriage based on the first one. also they are very different in terms of status and personalities. so they have to figure out how to mingle. anyway, they do fall in love but those differenes and past create conflicts.
in the end, the ML puts it this way -- we are who we are precisely because of the past and how that first marriage went. they will always love the spouse they lost. but at the same time, they are no longer the person they were in their first marriage. loss and life has changed them and shaped them into different people. so what they needed in the first marriage is not what they need now. so rather than try and replicate the first marriage, both need to let go and create something new -- something that fits their current situations and personalities. basically who they are now.
too bad I lost the book while moving but that ending scene stayed with me because it was written so beautifully (a bit too beautiful for a MB. š).
in regards to your question, I think katha will have to come to a similar conclusion like the ML in the book. viaan is not even close to aditya. from what we have been shown, aditya was very cheerful, happy-go-lucky -- more similar to ehsaan in some ways. viaan cannot change and become that type of person; the way his life and circumstances have shaped him, he is who he is. it would be strange if he lost all those khadoos-ness permanently. it wouldn't be viaan then. so her journey (if written sensibly) will be to discover who she is as a woman now and see how viaan fits into her life now. now the woman she was with aditya but the woman who she is now.
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