Personal Narrative: Divorce

LLauren, unlike me, absolutely despises rain. I think its because the day my Dad made the divorce between my real mother clear, it was raining really hard. I remember that day. I think that was when I figured out the rain didn’t have to be something bad. I cried, and nobody noticed. They still thought I was strong, while I was cryi-“Hurry up!” Cherise whines outside the car. I groan, and survey the area enough to know that we’re at school. The moped expressions plastered on the students faces give it away. According to my stepsister, Cherise, she is the most popular, prettiest, and best girl at school. I snort as she guides me through her self -obsessed tour of herself. She’s even worse then Brittany Miller, one of my sister’s old bullying

In the Spring of 2011, my parents got a divorce. I was thirteen years old and it was one of the most difficult things I have ever had to experience. I can remember like it was yesterday when my mother sat me down and confessed the tragic news. Going through something that horrific, I would never wish divorce on anyone. Being a child of divorce, I went though the divorce differently than my mother and father did. With both parents being separated in different homes, I had to choose who I wanted to stay with on the nightly. It was a bad situation because both parents were going through such a destructive time, yet both desired always to be with my sister and I. That was the most painful and challenging decision I would have to daily make. I never

After 3 months of marriage, his true self began to show. He would not hold a job, the mental, physical and verbal abuse, his alcoholism and infidelity. I began to move back home. By time the first car payment was due he did not have the money to make it and had the nerve to call and ask my mother to borrow the money. By that time I had packed

"Dad wants me to stay here and live with him. Is that okay?" my son asked. "He's promised me all kinds of "neat stuff" and I can get to know my step family better.

Personal Narrative: Divorce Mum had briefly informed me that we were going to a place that would

Our relationship wasn’t the same since that day. It got tremendously healthier. We actually got along and agreed on the same things. I no longer felt like he didn’t love me or care about me. Even though he didn’t stop drinking completely, he had cut back on some of it. I couldn’t be any happier with him for doing

Part of this was because he finally felt like he could again and part of it was because he was upset. He would post things on social media about how drinking was easier than being lonely or "get drunk or die trying." I would receive snapchats of him drunk late at night every now and then pleading to me to come back to him and saying how sorry he was. I began to grow more and more concerned because I felt a sense of responsibility and care for him since we had dated for so long and because I felt like our breakup was a large portion of his spiral into early alcoholism. However, I never said anything to him because I was scared of making things

Assignment two was a personal narrative and I choose to write about the time I found out my parents were getting a divorce. I found out this information spring junior year. This assignment was very difficult for me to write, I struggled with writing my feelings on the paper. Throughout my writing career I have never been good at writing personal essays. Although, I struggled with writing my ideas on paper. I succeeded in giving sensory details and being able to create good dialogue between characters .While I feel my personal narrative made strong use of dialogue, sensory detail, and the overall idea. An essay can always be revised and edited. I needed to work on making sure my tenses are the same throughout, adding descriptions of characters,

My parents' divorce was one of my most significant life events. As a result of my parents' divorce, I lived in a divided home. I spent part of my time with my father (usually weekends and a few holidays) and part of my time with my mother (weekdays and other major holidays). Unlike other children my age, who tended to conceive of their parents as infallible well into adolescence, I understood at a young age that my parents were not perfect. My mother frequently criticized my father and vice versa. At first, I felt resentful towards both of them for shattering my world. It was uncomfortable and awkward having to deal with both of them when the anger of the divorce was still festering.

“The divorce rate in this country is approximately 50% and is seems to have become more commonplace that people are willing to get a divorce for myriad of reasons, instead of working things out.” (Martinez) Divorce causes many problems, but what the couple that is getting divorced does not know is that they are hurting people other than themselves. Many couples struggle with reasons why they should divorce and others work through issues trying to save their marriage (Martinez). Divorce impacts everyone in the family. The decision to divorce has to be made based on each family’s morals, beliefs and individual situation.

It's a blessing that you have found peace and happiness within your fifth marriage because it was interesting to see that 50% of people fall out of their marriage. Additionally, according to Daniel H. (2012) “even when considering social support, health, and economic resources, it is said that remarried men experience lesser depressive symptoms as compared to single men”. So, once again it’s great that you found your other half, and I pray that your marriage continues to blossom throughout your future

“If we were to ask a number of couples they are divorced, we would receive many different answers: “We feel out of love”, “We grew apart”, “We are just too different”, “He/she met someone new” or we may not get a response at all (Seccombe, 2015). I watched as my mother reached for her 20 x 24 wedding picture that hung on the wall of the family living room , and threw it to the ground in anger. Broken pieces of glass laid across the picture of her and her husband, or my step-father. The shattered pieces of glass and broken frame on the floor represented her broken marriage and her shattered emotions. I was about sixteen when I witnessed my first divorce on a micro-level perspective. The FAD2230 Divorce Restoration Act, is an act in which will make

Amidst the boredom of summer and a lasting drought, my parents came into our family room where my sister and I were trying to drown out the monotony. They sat us down with such a somber tone that it was palpable in the room. My mom cut straight to the chase and announced something that would change my life indefinitely. “Your dad and I are getting a divorce.”

In Willard F Harley, Jr.’s book entitled His Needs Her Needs: Building an Affair-Proof Marriage, the reasons for divorce are discussed. Harley discovered the simplest answer for why couples were struggling and marriages were failing. People were simply not in love with each other anymore. For many years, he and the majority of other marriage counselors around the nation struggled to piece back the relationships. He discusses his own discovery of why that was happening. He felt that counselors were paying attention to the wrong side of the issue. In general, counselors thought the key was to enhance communication to solve problems. Of course, that is apart of it, but that was not the “fix” for struggling couples. Counselors were so

Leaving a strict traditional family household and transferring into another strict household almost stripped me of my identity, yet in another way of expressing it, "taming the horse", trying to break the spirit was not for me. The experiences of my divorce is not something I would wish on my worst enemy, so to speak, and still continues on with its never ending surprises. Having the opportunity to function at whim, to spread my wings and soar gave me clarity and drive to continue on, one step at a