Actually, I blame Mithie. Beti maa ko dekh kar hi sikhti hai , I found it extremely regressive that she's still hang up on Dev , but I still support her because I believe true freedom lies in being able to decide for your life choices. If she wants to spend her entire life pining for the man who cheated her belief , impregnating her and then running away and never looking back , it's her choice . She's entitled to it.
But did she once think what example she is setting for her daughter ?? Filled her head with ideas about marriage that there valid around 18th century!! Initially I found it very refreshing that Imlie never wanted to get married but wanted to just study and do a job and make a life for herself and her mother. But now it's as if one forced marriage has become everything for her, and more important to her life than anything else. If it was about love, if she simply been in one sided love she'd have my full support and respect. There is nothing regressive or wrong with one sided love. It is actually the purest form of love and it's also the strongest because it's independent of other person's reciprocation. Very very empowering.
But Imlie is not in love with Aditya, she's in love with being married to him, which is like the text book definition of effed up !!
But alas, looks like the apple hasn't fallen far from the tree.