A day ahead of India’s T20 World Cup team announcement, Delhi Capitals and India opener Shikhar Dhawan has suffered a personal blow. His wife Ayesha Mukherjee has shared that the couple has gone separate ways after completing their divorce after almost 10 years.
Shikhar Dhawan married the Melbourne-based boxer, Ayesha Mukherjee, in 2012 and adopted her two daughters from her previous marriage. The couple has a son named Zoravar. Ayesha Mukherjee broke the news on her new Instagram page named ‘Aesha Mukerji’ on Tuesday. Sources in the know of developments confirmed the news to a news agency.
She wrote –
I THOUGHT DIVORCE WAS A DIRTY WORD UNTIL I BECAME A 2 TIME DIVORCEE.
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Funny how words can have such powerful meanings and associations. I experienced this first hand as a divorcee. 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.
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I felt as if I had let everyone down and even felt selfish. I felt that I was letting my parents down, I felt that I was letting my children down and even to some extent I felt as if I was letting God down. Divorce was such a dirty word.
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So now imagine, I have to go through it a second time. Woooahhhhhh. That is terrifying. Being divorced once before already, felt like I had more at stake the second time round. I had more to prove. So when my second marriage broke down it was really scary. All the feelings I felt when I went through it the first time came flooding in. Fear, failure and disappointment x 100. What does this mean for me? How does this define me and my relationship to marriage?
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Well, once I went through the necessary actions and emotions of what had happened I was able to sit with myself and see that I was fine, I was actually doing great, even noticed my fear had totally disappeared. The remarkable thing is I actually felt much more empowered. I realised my fear and the meaning I gave to the word divorce was my own doing.
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So, once I realised this I started to redefine the word and the experience of divorce according to the way I wanted to see it and experience it.
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❤️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.
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If you’re struggling with divorce or scared to end a relationship based on being labelled a divorcee then dm ‘divorce’ and book in a Vision Call with me to work 1:1
It should be noted that Ayesha Dhawan’s profile has been deleted and there has been no mention of Shikhar Dhawan on the new profile under Aesha Mukerji’s name. However, the India opener hasn’t confirmed or denied the reports.
It comes as a terrible emotional blow for Shikhar Dhawan, whose fate in the T20 World Cup squad hangs in a balance. Despite performing excellently in the IPL, he had an average campaign in the Sri Lanka series, in which he led the side. With Prithvi Shaw and KL Rahul in excellent form, his chances of making it to the squad is in question.
Currently, Shikhar Dhawan is in UAE with the Delhi Capitals squad where he has begun practice ahead of IPL 2021 Phase 2.
