You’re having a quiet family weekend after a long week. Suddenly, you notice your parents sitting far apart, barely acknowledging each other. No arguments, no chaos, just silence thick enough to feel. And in that instant, you're transported back to every tense dinner table, every whispered fight, every moment you learnt to tiptoe around emotions long before you learnt algebra.

You start to wonder - is this what marriage becomes? Two people sharing space, but not life?

Nimisha Khanna (name changed), 28, knows this feeling well. She spent her teenage years sensing something was off at home, even though no one ever said it aloud. Two years ago, after 25 years of marriage, her parents finally separated.

“When they divorced, they said they had stayed together for me and my younger brother —

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