Originally posted by: Deltablues
Firstly, as soon as Abhimanyu divorced Akshara, she ceased to be his family. She has no obligations towards him even now. He is nobody to her, socially or legally. A divorcée woman is free to choose whoever she wants. A single mother, which Akshara was, gives her every right to choose what happens with her child as well.
"Abhinav got a family for free" denies Akshara's agency to chose her own partner. Akshara chose to make Abhinav her partner, family, and he consented. Where does selfishness or selflessness come in when accepting a marriage proposal? Whom should he have been selfless towards?
Also, family is not an object to be earned or gained for free. More than not, people consent to come together and make a family.
Secondly, Abhinav was selflessly looking after a pregnant Akshara even when she hadn't proposed marriage to him. He was looking after a pregnant woman selflessly even when her husband had divorced her without getting a standard medical procedure of cleaning the womb after a miscarriage administered on her. That is the writing of the show. He loved her without any imposition after marriage, he transferred his immobile property to her, he was willing to let her go if ever wanted to go back to her ex. He never interfered or restricted her interaction with her ex. He was truly selfless. That is in the writing of the show
Thirdly, how can Akshara owe anything to someone who is dead? This is a false equivalency, that no one is drawing. I am just talking about the ennui from a storytelling perspective that can be resolved by showing Abhimanyu selflessly looking after Akshnav's kid like Abhinav did.
But like I said, Akshara can do whatever she wants and my interest in the show is done so I will not break my head over what the writing team does.
P.S : I am not mocking/bashing/gatekeeping/moral policing any character, actor, member or fandom
I am purely talking of the writing of the show
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