Actor Imran Khan recently got you know candid about the real life of single parenting while also co-parenting his daughter Imara with his ex-wife Avantika Malik.

He said that some mothers of Imara’s friends they feel a little hesitant about sending the kids over for playdates mainly because there is no woman in his household.

Recently Imran appeared on Parineeti Chopra’s show Mom Talks and he talked about the struggles and responsibilities that come with being a single parent.

Honestly it sounded a bit heavy like day to day you know. Imran is now co parenting his daughter with ex-wife Avantika and earlier he also shared that she spends three to four days a week with him.

During the chat show Imran shared that when his daughter stays with him organising playdates with her friends and coordinating with their parents can get kinda challenging you know it’s not always easy.

He basically said that these little plans the whole back and forth with everyone involved it can feel like a bit of a hassle at times.

Imran said, “I would try to make plans. And Imara would ask me, ‘Can you ask this friend if they can come over to play?’ So I would find the number and message one mom: ‘Can so-and-so come over to play?’ And they would say, ‘Sorry, not today.’ Next week again: ‘Hi, can we do it?’, they are like, ‘No, not today’. So I started to notice that some moms were maybe not so comfortable sending their child, particularly if it’s a girl, to a house where a single man is living. I’m a man and I’m the father, but since I’m divorced now, there is no woman at home.”

The actor admitted that he understood their perspective as well, mentioning, “So, look, we also live in a world where there are enough problematic men. You can kind of understand where this thinking comes from. It was heartbreaking because week after week I had to tell my daughter, ‘Sorry, your friend can’t come’.”

Imran feels that mothers often come together to support fellow single mothers, but “a single father doesn’t have that, which is also part of the unfortunate nature of male relationships”. He mentioned that there is a restrictive version of manhood that is taught to all men, which is “men are strong, men are not like that. So within that, some of these more vulnerable parts of yourself maybe don’t get addressed, where a woman will have two or three girlfriends who respond emotionally and support you there."