Hi. I really need to say this before I leave the story.
If Janani ends up going back to Varun after everything he has done to her, without any real consequences, then honestly, I feel the story is romanticizing domestic violence and marital rape in the name of love. Physical abuse, emotional abuse, humiliation, and throwing a pregnant woman out of her home are not things that should simply be erased because the man later regrets his actions.
When I first started reading, I genuinely thought Janani was going to become a strong, independent woman who would stand up for herself. But if she ultimately forgives Varun easily and returns to him, her entire journey risks becoming a message that a woman should tolerate even extreme abuse as long as the man claims to love her.
That is deeply disappointing.
As women writers, I believe we have a responsibility to tell stories where women don't have to sacrifice their dignity, safety, and self-respect for the sake of love. We can write women who walk away. Women who choose themselves. Women who refuse to accept abuse simply because society tells them to forgive.
Strength isn't about being revengeful. Sometimes strength is simply saying, “You hurt me, and I will not allow you to hurt me again.”
I’m sorry, but I’m out of this story. I sincerely hope that in your future stories, you give us more women who challenge these outdated ideas instead of characters who forgive abuse and eventually romanticize it as love.
Love should never require a woman to lose herself.