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Family Related Conflicts That Changed My Family Essay

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I first became aware of conflict when my dad came home drunk one night (when I was around 4-5 years-old) and him and my mother began to argue, foolishly thinking that I had been long asleep. The argument quickly escalated, and I remember that my dad was acting particularly out of character-he proceeded to tell my mom that he was going to set the house on fire. After hearing my dad’s words, I vaguely remember me praying until I fell asleep.
Another series of family-related conflicts unfolded when I was about 4-years-old, and one of my sisters, who is older than me by eight years, became a teenage mother. My mother and sister engaged in an array of colorful arguments, some of which escalated to physical violence. After the initial fury that my sister’s pregnancy unveiled, my mother decided to let Karen (my sister) move back into our house, not foreseeing the next conflict that was bound to arise.
Largely due to my sister’s undiagnosed bipolar disorder, she would drag my niece by the hair across the floor, from room to room, for reasons that did not merit such erratic responses. In my case, I mainly remember getting in trouble for not drinking/eating my spinach soup one particular day- my mom chased me around the dinner table and hit me with a leather belt a few times.
A few years later, both my sister and niece moved out of our house, and my exposure to conflict mainly entailed arguments between my parents whenever dad came to visit me (by then my parents were separated). In

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