Priyanka Chopra says she became a ‘doormat’ in relationships before Nick Jonas: ‘I ended up dating actors that I worked with’

However, Priyanka decided to give herself some time after her last relationship before she married Nick Jonas. She said she wanted to reflect upon why is she repeating the same mistakes in her relationships. The biggest mistake she thinks she was making was considering herself a ‘caretaker’ and putting her man’s needs, his job before her.

“The repeating of the mistake was always feeling like, I need to be the caretaker, always feeling like it’s okay to cancel my job or my work or my meeting or my priority to make sure that he’s propped up. It was so normalised in my brain for so long that I ended up giving the power in such a skewed way that I never stood up for myself. I literally would become like a doormat and I was like, okay, that’s fine because, you know, that’s what women have been told for such a long time that our role is to glue the family together or you’ve got to make your man feel comfortable when he comes back home,” shared Priyanka.

Priyanka also put some of the blame for her mindset on the “patriarchal society” that she comes from where she feels “there’s a normalcy around the man eating first and then women.”

But soon the Citadel star realised what she was doing was “self-destructive” and started feeling ‘invisible’ in her relationships. She said, “I reached a point in my life where I was like, what the f*** are you doing? Like, this is getting self-destructive at this point when I had to choose me, I had to be like I don’t owe no one anything except my family and myself, the people who truly love me. When you are in relationships where you stop recognising who you are, you stop having your own identity, or you stop knowing what is it what you want for yourself, what your goals are, then you are invisible. And, I just started feeling invisible in my relationships.”

However, things changed after Priyanka got into a relationship with American singer Nick Jonas, who in her words, “thrives on seeing me shine”.

“My husband makes me feel so seen and so heard and in fact, he thrives on seeing me shine, like he is the most excited about the shows I am doing, he is the most excited when I am on a carpet, he will step aside and he will take pictures of me,” Priyanka shared while adding that Nick is everything a woman would want in her partner.

She concluded, “My husband and I have this incredible partnership of ‘I got you.’ I can lean on him, you know, that trust exercise, I won’t do that with anyone except Nick. I don’t trust people. He has my back.”

Nick Jonas and Priyanka Chopra married each other in 2018 after knowing each other for two years. The two are now parents to a daughter, Malti Marie Jonas.