Exclusive: “Begin By Forgiving Yourself”: Filmmaker Kiran Rao’s Advice For Women Going Through Divorce
She is right!
It is mostly the women who have to face the brunt of divorces. Our society is also not very supportive towards women who take the strong decision of separating from their partners. While it’s already a painful decision to make, people aorund make it harder for women. However, Laapataa Ladies director Kiran Rao has a very helpful and important advice for all the women who take the entire pressure of going through the process of divorce. During a recent chat with us, the director advised women t0 first forgive themselves during this journey and take the pressure away from themsleves. Read to know more.
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Kiran Rao’s Advice For Woman
During a coversation with Hauterrfly, Laapataa Ladies director Kiran Rao spoke about how she maintained a cordial relation with her ex-husband Aamir Khan after their divorce. Kiran Rao said, “It’s hard to put yourself in other people’s shoes, and lots of people have many hurtful divorces. But one thing that one should keep in mind that we often judge ourselves very harshly when we are going through a divorce. In turn, all these judgements make you feel worse about yourself and at the same you blaming the other person entirely for the failure of a relationship. Perhaps, here, a better thing to do is to be a little kinder to yourself and automatically you will be kinder to the other person too. You should also forgive yourself and once you do that, you feel a less angry with yourself and utilimatly the other person too. In order to value the fact the you have given a lot to the relationship, you should begin by forgiving yoursefl for the failure of marriage, and start from a place of love.”
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Talking from a personal experience, Kiran Rao further added, “Let’s be reasonable, if nothing else, we can at least be cordial friends if not best of friends. There are various reasons why a divorce can be ugly, and women struggle a lot after it or while going through it. I feel what you really need is to take a little pressure off of yourself, Feel the feels and don’t be so hard on yourself.”
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Laapataa Ladies director Kiran Rao’s advice is for every woman out there blaming herself for a broken marriage. Ladies, remember that it’s not entirely on you. We hope Kiran Rao’s empowering words help every woman going through this tough time!
