Personal Narrative: How Does One Cope With Infidelity

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

About 17% of divorces are caused by infidelity (“Cheating”)! Infidelity is one of the leading causes of divorce. Unfortunately, lack of communication can be a lead cause to infidelity. Couples who lack communication or common interests act out to other people. He or she find someone that is easier to talk to or someone who is more attractive. Sometimes these acts only happen once because the gilt gets to them, or they continue to see this other person until their spouse finds out. Children with cheating parents either follow in their footsteps or become the better person.

One of the largest reasons that couples in the US get divorced is because one member of the couple commits infidelity with an outside member. Infidelity includes being unfaithful to your spouse or leaving your spouse to be with another more desired partner (Amato & Previti, 2003). When it comes to infidelity, more often than not one spouse will cite the other as having been the offender than themselves (Austin Institute, 2014). Reports from the Austin Institute

"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.

There are many ways in which infidelity can be explained depending on what you are reading or with whom you are speaking. Emotional and sexual infidelity is the two most studied forms of infidelity. The cognitive approach to infidelity explains that as our cognition is developing, we are also indirectly learning behaviors that could contribute to infidelity as adults. Infidelity no matter what the circumstances are surrounding it can leave both partners devastated. The circumstances surrounding infidelity can include a broad range excuses. The evolutionary approach to infidelity explains that men are more distressed by their partners committing sexual infidelity, whereas

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

Infidelity is another form of secrecy; it is “violation of a couple’s stated contract” (Webster Dictionary). It happens when an individual becomes connected with someone outside of the relationships, either in person or online. In the article The Secrets Couples keep, Marisa Cohen says, “In a perfect relationship, you wouldn’t keep anything from your sweetie?” (Cohen). Emotional affairs are appealing because it is easy to be close with someone who the individual doesn’t share any responsibility commitment with. It is possible to get good feelings when the person thinks they’re wonderful and doesn’t see their issues. Their relationship fails because one or both partners tries to have control. The love is torn and each person is left feeling

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,

You wouldn’t know it just by looking at me, but I spent years of my life being abused by the father of my children. We married at the tender age of 15, while I was pregnant with our first child. At the time, I imagined us having a wonderful life together while raising a passel of kids. Instead, he physically and emotionally me and my children. Although I left him several times in the next few years before finally leaving in 2011, I was still often held hostage by his mind games, physical violence, and drama until the summer of 2016.

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.”

Infidelity also could fall under the situation of lack of communication. During a marriage, everything is not going to always be good. Nobody is perfect. But infidelity or cheating is more than likely to occur, if there are trust issues, or no understanding of the relationship. Because of the misunderstanding and outrages infidelity, divorce is the next step of a marriage.

They (your husband/wife) understand the repercussions of bringing this emotional affair out in the open. You may have heard your spouse talk about the other person in an innocent manner, but later quit speaking to you about them completely. Values such as transparency in your marriage, have now been thrown out the window. Things like greater honesty and transparency must be incorporated, if there is to be emotional affair recovery.

    We are told from the time that we are young to take responsibility for our actions, but there are some kids out there that blame their responsibilities on others. Even though they don’t want to take responsibility for their actions someone else has to take responsibility. When being able to be part of the stories you learn things that you wouldn’t ever be able to learn without being part of it. I have learned things the hard way just to find out that I shouldn’t have been doing it in the first place. Here are some thing that I learned from this situation.

I do understand from this reading that adultery and divorce were complicated issues, often deeply ingrained and difficult to treat, but I think we need to be successfully communicate what we know that there will be hard times and there is a possibility of

The third cause for divorce is when there is infidelity in the marriage. In the past men were known for being unfaithful but now it is both men and women. Roughly, about sixty percent of men are unfaithful and forty percent of women are unfaithful. These numbers are outrages. Many men and women say they are unfaithful because there is no communication in the marriage. Their spouse does not know what is going on in their lives. Therefore, they turn to a coworker or friend for support and that became the gateway to their infidelity. Infidelity is one of the hardest things to cope with in a marriage. Because it makes the spouse feel insecure, self conscious, disgusted with their spouse, and embarrassed about him or herself, especially if the family finds out. Some spouses are not able to deal with the infidelity and they will end up getting a divorce.