Self-Helpless Snack: Divorce Looks Different For Everyone with Nishima Gupta
Self-Helpless
Crossover Media Group
4.8 • 3K Ratings
🗓️ 18 November 2024
⏱️ 8 minutes
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Summary
Indian-American writer, Nishima Gupta, shares her experience witnessing her parents' divorce (that they kept secret from her for 3 years), how culture impacted their decisions, and what it's taught her about love and relationships.
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| 0:44.0 | How long had they been divorced prior to you finding that out? So about three years. So they've |
| 0:50.9 | been divorced for three years and you have no idea. Were your parents still living under the same roof, even though they were divorced for three years? |
| 0:59.8 | Yeah. So my parents got divorced, I believe, April 2008. Yeah. And then even after the divorce, we still lived in the same. I mean, I was in college, but I came home every weekend, but my parents |
| 1:12.3 | still lived in the same house. Like, my mom didn't move out of the house until 2013. Six years |
| 1:18.1 | being with your divorced parents in the same roof. It's like real fun. Was there a reason they stayed |
| 1:23.9 | under the same roof? And how did that work? My dad and my mom, even though the marriage was |
| 1:31.8 | not working out, they both very heavily believe in a nuclear family system. And, you know, |
| 1:37.5 | so even though I kind of found out in college, like, I guess my parents just sort of believed that |
| 1:43.1 | I would be a little bit more |
| 1:44.9 | emotionally mature to handle it. I think that just, it kind of what comes with being an immigrant, |
| 1:50.4 | you know, it's like you're our like family, family first over everything. Regardless of what's |
| 1:57.0 | broken, it's just like family first. You know, my mom, like she was, I mean, |
| 2:02.7 | my mom was like pretty much a housewife for a lot of her life. You know, she had had jobs here and |
| 2:07.5 | there, but, you know, it was going to take her some time to kind of like get back on her feet. And, |
| 2:12.1 | you know, and my dad, they just, it was never going to be one of those things or one or the other was going to, like, |
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