Indian opener Shikhar Dhawan’s wife Aesha Mukherjee announced that she is getting a divorce from her husband and that it felt very scary being divorced the second time in her life. The couple tied knots eight years ago and have a son together, named Zoravar.
In her lengthy Instagram post, Aesha wrote, “I THOUGHT DIVORCE WAS A DIRTY WORD UNTIL I BECAME A 2 TIME DIVORCEE.”
“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
“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,” she added before going on to describe how tough her life is going to become as she would go once again through the mental trauma of failure in marriage
“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?" wrote the 46 years old.
While there has been no confirmation from Dhawan, who recently led Team India in Sri Lanka and is currently in UAE to compete in the Indian Premier League, there hasn’t been any denial of the news by him or his family either.
Aesha, a Melbourne based boxer, has two daughters from her previous marriage and is 11 years older than Dhawan.