The Importance Of Divorce In My Life

Throughout my childhood, my environment consisted of switching between my mother's and father's house every week. Since I was an infant, my parents have been divorced and I believe that being a child of divorce has shaped my life tremendous ways. Through the hardships that came with living in two houses for 16 years of my life, I had the time to mature and learn a lot about myself and who I wanted to be as a person. Watching my parents for many years, I realized what I did and did not want to be when I grew up. From my father, I wanted to have the dedication and perseverance that he exhibited. From my mother, I wanted to be friendly and beautiful like her. However, there was many qualities that my parents carried that I did not want to take

It was less than a second, maybe half a second, but it changed everything. It was late at night after a soccer game. I was laying down in my room, coloring in a picture book, when my parents called me downstairs. After my sister and I walked downstairs, we were told to sit on the couch. Apparently my parents had something important to tell us, i didnt really realize what was going to happen because I was younger, so I sat on the couch smiling widely.

When I was about 14 months old, my parents separated which then led to a divorce. Since I was extremely young, I cannot remember how it affected me. But once I got into grade school, I was in great knowledge that something was different. I then started to understand the affects my parents’ divorce had on me such as anger, resentment, feeling of loneliness, and prob-lems with communication. Now that I am a young adult, I still feel like I am being affected by those same problems except now I am able to control myself when I start to feel the symptoms. Divorce has had a huge impact on my life.

7th grade was the year I woke up. My mom called me into her bedroom late one afternoon and was still sitting on her bed, wearing her pajamas. The bright and cheerful sunshine that lit up the room gave a false ambiance of the tension that clouded the air. I already knew what she was going to say, but I did not want to believe it as the truth. I had noticed that my mom and dad's relationship with one another was growing apart just by the way they acted around each other. The conversations between them became shorter and their affection for one another began to fade. My dad spent his nights falling asleep watching TV on the couch, while my mom slowly disappeared back into her bedroom, alone. This had been happening for a while now, so I do not know why I was even surprised when my mom said to me that, “Your dad and I are getting a divorce”. I should have seen it coming. The clues were all in front of me, but I was too afraid to put them together. I was scared because, for the first time in my life, the image of my "perfect" family was crumbling before me. I knew inside that my family was falling apart, but I was desperately holding onto the fibers that I thought were keeping us together. It is hard to believe that one encounter can change the course of one's life forever. In this instance, I was awoken from the dream that I had been living in for so long.

About fifty percent of couples married in the 1970’s divorced, that raised from twenty percent just from the 1950’s, ruining the families and leaving the children in those families with two different homes causing a sense of two different lives. Divorce to some has become a sense of happiness, to make life easier. It is not. You lose close to everything: money, house, car, that love you once had, and if you had children, you can lose them too.

Divorces often feel like the absolute worst thing in the world. You and your spouse may be emotional spent from all the arguing and battling, but how can you avoid this problem? Simple: by having a four-way meeting with your lawyers. This four-person session helps sort out a lot of problems, concerns, and difficulties. Before jumping into one blind, however, you need to know a little bit about them.

Having my dad around all the time wasn’t my everyday routine. I’d see him once or twice a week so I wasn’t very much used to see him every day. One day I came home after school and he and my mom were on the balcony talking, the notice I was staring, they both looked at me and called for a family meeting by the tone of their voices I could tell there was

Relationships in general are complicated and hard to figure out, but with the right person it could be easier. There are many different kinds of relationships out there, there is difficulty, easy, meaningful, bad and many more kinds. People get married for different reasons too, some people get married for not good reasons and some for good reasons. Marriage is a very big deal and you should only get married for the right reasons.People can get a divorce so easily and do not have to wait. More needs to be done to lower the divorce rate in the United States.

My parents separated when I was six years old and officially divorced when I was eleven. During this time, I never knew the real story behind the split. However, now that I can understand the complications and issues, I seek for the answer to that question. That question that has been in my mind for as long as I can remember: why did they split up? As I listen to my mom express her side, my heart shatters. I realize that even though the divorce never impacted me, learning how much she suffered and how she handled it has an affect on me.

There I was 5 years old, sitting in the big tan paisley chair next to my parents bed, eating pretzels like they were running out. And watching mickey on the television. Out of nowhere my parents started verbally fighting. I look over at them in terror because I had never seen them fight about something before. As the conversation went on I couldn't believe what I was seeing. The room filled with loud yelling. I got up out of the chair started walking toward the door on the other side of the room. My dad grabbed the silver lamp and threw it against the footboard of my parents bed. It shattered into a million pieces. My mom had started crying. I could not take all of the pain and sadness in the room. I dashed right out of there room all the way

I always looked forward to my mom coming home from work. She always walked into the doors with a smile on her face and greeted us with so much affection. Seeing her each day after work gave me so much joy and I looked forward to it. One particular day when I was 5 years old, my mom pulled into the driveway and I got filled with excitement that I literally thought I was going to pee myself. Except when she got out of the car she had this look on her face that I had never seen before. She looked worried, scared, and heartbroken. My excitement quickly floated away. My mom approached my dad and said we need to talk. My mom and my dad went into the bedroom to talk and when they came out of that I room I knew something was wrong. Dad came out looking so angry and sad, as if his world was just turned upside down. My mom approached me and they both took me out onto the front porch of our home. I remember thinking in my head, “what did I do this time?’ That’s when the words came out my mom’s mouth, “Clay came to my work today and he wants to see you and have a relationship with you.” I knew Clay was

Like any other essay that I've written, about change in my life, I could write about my parents divorce, which helped me learn how to deal with the constant struggles that followed. I could write about how it tore me apart, and how hard it was for me moving all the time. All of that would be a lie. In reality, I was too young to really understand what divorce was. To me, it merely meant moving in with my favorite family members and not being scared because of my parents fighting anymore. However, having twelve years passed, I've come to the realization that, my parents divorce isn’t at all what has taught me the most in life. What happened, as a result of my parents splitting up, is what has impacted me the most.

Often times, people are ashamed of their background. However, I personally never miss an opportunity to tell the few chapters of my life so far. My background isn’t appealing, but it’s a beautiful mess that made me the person I am today.

The United States is a country that takes pride in the fact that no matter what religion, race or sex you are you can join together in the unity of marriage. Many people dream of growing up and marrying the love of their life and having a family, but they do not take into consideration there are 2.3 million marriages a year, with over 1.2 million divorces (“The Impact of Divorce on Our Society”). Divorce is not limited to breaking apart the husband and wife; it destroys families, siblings and the future of the American children. Divorces cause money, crime and education issues and an overall effect on the children caught in the middle, which follows them into their adult life.