Originally posted by: EkPaheli
@bold - Gautam wasn’t abused but he was neglected and got traumatised by watching his parents (as he believed them) arguing all the time. He had no family to console him, no elders to stop his parents; worse he had to be the go to elder figure for Karisma, the daughter born to Aarti and Kiran who was similarly raised in the same house with parents constantly arguing. Gautam was a child who had to shelter another child scared similarly with no one to protect him.
We know eventually the couple got divorced and they split the custody of the kids between themselves. They were horrible to each other even post divorce and hardly stayed in touch with their other kid. I can’t remember atm who got whose custody. It’s implied that the Gautam and Karisma were deprived from each other’s company as well as Aarti moved away to another place as well.
We know that Gautam ends up in India post the leap and neither Aarti nor Kiran has any idea whatsoever where he was let alone that he had shifted to Mumbai. They discover it after he’s arrested for beating Saahil badly for which Tulsi lodged a police complaint against him iirc. Even Tulsi herself discovers that he’s her son after his arrest courtesy of the police seizing his passport to ensure he doesn’t escape from India on the first flight out. She sees Aarti and Kiran listed as his parents and that’s when the truth is out.
Kiran and Aarti weren’t abusive parents but they weren’t good parents either. They had been allowed to adopt Gautam as Aarti was diagnosed with issues that might not allow her to have a child of her own ever, she was so attached to Gautam after that point that she was allowed a pity adoption. Kiran and she ran away from the family with him as Aarti was not comfortable with the idea of Gautam growing up with his biological parents right there always being in his life. She felt like the adoption would be always a namesake formality if they stayed in SN as Mihir Tulsi would always make sure that they exercised their rights as parents over Gautam in all matters big and small. She thought that their presence wouldn’t ever let her and Kiran to become Gautam’s parents truly. Then she has a miracle child and their daughter is literally named Karisma because duh… that’s what she was for her parents.Ironically, Kiran Aarti turned out to be bad parents to both of them by their parenting and the way their marriage collapsed. IIRC, the bone of contention in their marriage was that Aarti wanted to have a career too while neither was willing to take responsibility of the kids and were happy to have nannies and boarding schools raise them. They had no way to turn back to their families and the toll of raising two children was too much for them when both were ambitious and later their ambitions turned into a competition wherein both tried to outdo the other so as to prove why they couldn’t stay at home to take care of their children.
Karishma 's condition was so bad that she started to have drugs because of her parents.she want to be with her family
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