Originally posted by: Lethamukund
It's good to hear that you love and value your parents the most. 
And one must always.
It's quite normal to love a fictional character and you get attached to them as you read or watch a story.
Why I watch and read stories is that those characters give you a lot of life lessons, which you may be able to imbibe and apply in real life. I don't watch shows for any actor, and even if I like an actor, I don't agree with all the characters that they play. What I learned from this show, especially S3 is don't be angry and impulsive like Abhimanyu, don't be a controlling parent like Manjari, don't be sacrificial and don't run away from problems like Akshara. Any decision taken out of anger will lead to life long regret, sometimes leads to a loss which you can never recover.
Let me narrate my own experience of a similar tragic event in my life. I was staying alone in a far away state for work, while pregnant and I had a bit of complications. My doctor suggested to take almost care and my husband was almost another part of the country. I decided to continue to stay at my place even after my family asked me otherwise. I had to travel for some urgent work and I fell from train (fainted due to not eating) and had a bad MC. I was devastated, and started feeling guilty for not being careful. My husband and parents, in-laws all rushed from different parts of country and they all stayed with me for 3 months till I recovered. They never made me feel that I made a mistake, but I knew I was wrong. I could sail through the toughest days of my life just because my family stood with me. Having a MC is really really bad, it drains you mentally and physically. And if at that point you are left alone, you may end up in depression and even end yourself. While I watched WD sequence, all those deep down memories triggered and I was so disturbed. Whatever Akshara did thereafter I will not say those will not be as bad and cruel as what Abhimanyu did on WD and immediately after.
Similarly, my. brothers' infant died on the very next day of birth because my SIL slept off while feeding (she was totally exhausted), and no one was around her as her mother and my brother went to pay some bills. Can you imagine the mental stress that mother went through? Both of them were depressed and it took our family a year to bring them to normalcy. In both our cases, families stood with us, and we together sailed through. That's what relations are for.
And each time in the show, Akshara was left alone and she was never made to feel a part of family. That's why I feel and connect to her more. Its very easy to see the story as an outsider, but if you have ever experienced a similar situation, you feel that she should have been held tight by someone (and Abhimanyu claimed he loved her madly). That's when she found Abhinav and he was her last straw of her sinking state and she held on to him. I don't see Akshara as bad in that sense.
Please feel free to disagree
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