New Delhi:
Ira Khan is the daughter of Aamir Khan and his first wife Reena Dutta.
Ira has always been vocal about the importance of mental health and emotional well-being.
She has been open about her journey with therapy and how it has helped her deal with many emotional challenges.
Recently, in a conversation with actor Ahsaas Channa, Ira shed light on the complexities of parent-child relationships. He also highlighted the need to understand when your child has grown up and is no longer a child.
He said, “During my depression, I learned a lot of things that I wish I had been taught earlier. For a few years, you’ve heard that marriage is a compromise, and you have to work on your marriage and things like that. But It’s the same with your parents, you have to work at it. No one tells you you have to have a relationship with your parents.”
Ira then reflected on her many struggles with depression and how therapy helped her heal her relationship with her parents, Aamir Khan and Reena Dutta.
They also mentioned how these conversations often do not happen in homes, thus complicating relationships between parents and their children.
He added, “Also, because you’re a child and at some point, you turn into an adult, where you’re expected to no longer see your parents as the parents you’re expected to be.” You’re supposed to see them as people, but that never changes, which means they (the parents) aren’t allowed to make the mistakes they will, and they make you the child. Will remain, not intentionally.
He talked about how important it is to see parents as individuals, with lives beyond their parental roles.
She shared an incident, saying, “I realized when my therapist said, ‘How are your parents? I thought, I don’t know them as people. I only know them as my parents.’ And how can I have a relationship with them? If I don’t know them, do I like them? And it’s really weird and interesting to get to know your parents as people.”
Aamir Khan and Reena Dutta got divorced in 2022. Earlier, in a video shared by Netflix India, Aamir Khan had revealed about taking joint therapy with his daughter Ira Khan.
Ira has repeatedly stated how therapy was the best thing she ever did, helping her strengthen her bond with her parents and seeing them as stronger individuals.
