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(CNN) -- Sukhraj Beasla's parents boast that their successful daughter works at a bank. The problem is that it's all a lie -- she was laid off more than two years ago.

The tentacles of this lie taunt her, adding to mounting familial pressure to get it together.

When Beasla visits her parents in Northern California and they go out to dinner or their temple, they brag right along with the other parents. Beasla has no choice but to play along with the lie.

"I have to go there and tell them I was able to get my next promotion and that I'm on track and that there's no way the company would let me go because I'm such a valuable asset and all this bulls***," Beasla said.

Parental pressure
Beasla, who holds a degree in marketing, took control of her situation shortly after she was laid off in 2009 and launched her own social media business.

After a year, her business went under.

She had a heart-to-heart talk with her father one night over dinner about how her business had hit a rut.

The words that came out of his mouth stung, she said.

"'God, you're 30 years old and I really expected you to be somewhere right now,'" he told her disappointedly, she recalled.

Her mother jumped in with a solution: Marry a doctor and she'd be set.

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