Ayesha Mukherjee post: After eight years of staying married, Shikhar Dhawan and wife Ayesha Mukherjee have got separated. Mukherjee took to Instagram to announce the same. In the caption, she explained how she has redefined the word 'divorce' and how the experience has empowered her.
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Here's what she wrote
Divorce means choosing myself and not settling and sacrificing my own life for the sake of a marriage
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Divorce means even though you do your best and try your best things sometimes do not work out and that's ok
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Divorce means I have had amazing relationships that have taught me great lessons to carry forward in new relationships
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Divorce means I am stronger and more resilient than I ever thought
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Divorce really means whatever meaning you give to it.
She wants women struggling with divorce or scared to end a relationship due to the stigma around divorce to reach out to her. Here's her Instagram post.
She also wrote that she had always thought that divorce was a dirty word until she became a tw0-time divorcee. She also opened up about the time she got divorced for the first time. "The first time I went through a divorce I was soooooooo fu@kn scared. I felt like I had failed and I was doing something so wrong at that time.", she wrote adding that she felt that she was letting her parents and children down and divorce was a dirty word back then but now after going through the necessary actions and emotions of what had happened, she noticed that her fear had evaporated making her feel empowered. "I realised my fear and the meaning I gave to the word divorce was my own doing.", she wrote.
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