Surviving Divorce And Parenting

0:00 Everybody told me, "Don't do it. You have a child." You know, we're doing it because we have a child. Single parenting different from [music] that unit of parenting. As a working mom, you're also juggling home, work, personal commitments yourself. As a single parent, I'm doing the same thing. But I think at times they're just a little more heightened maybe because you're doing it alone. >> So when was that inflection point that you said it's okay? [music] It had very little to do with how we were feeling in that marriage. It had everything to do about how this was going to shape our child. Everybody told me, "Don't do it.

0:33 You have a child." You know, we're doing it because we have a child. I'm also a single parent product. Tell everybody watching this that children who come from divorced homes do not come from broken homes. They [music] come from fixed homes. What was your all the ammunition that you needed when you took this step? I think the first thing is to really, you know, there's no garb. I just [music] cried. I think tears are therapy in motion and they don't even realize. They're like emotions in motion and while you have this incredible brave exterior.

1:06 What broke Swati as a mom? The biggest question that breaks me every day or makes me doubt what I'm doing a lot of times is it's okay. Yeah. Thanks. They're not easy to really think back. And this is the one statement breaks me even today when I think about it.