Experience With Divorced Parents Essay

Throughout life, everyone experiences living without a parent. I encountered it at a young age with my father being in the military. I didn’t get the experience of moving around a lot, but that is one thing I appreciate the most. Adjusting to being away from my dad that affected me the most because it made me view life and change into the person I am today.
After I was born, my dad accomplished his dream of being in the Army, so we moved to Killeen, Texas to live at Fort Hood. There we lived for most of my toddler years and welcomed my sister and brother into the world. Then when I was four my dad moved us to Germany, where he would train and get drafted into Iraq. There I got to interact with a different culture and even experience kindergarten. However , months later my mom took us back home to Southern Illinois due to the fact that it just wasn’t working for her and my dad.
At the age of five, I was experiencing not only being away from my dad, but I now had divorced parents. It started out difficult because my dad wasn’t around to see us every other weekend. But, we still went over to my grandparent's house and stayed with them. Every once in a …show more content…
Now that I'm older I realized how selfish it was for me to blame my mom. Even though she and my dad separated. They both sacrificed everything to make sure we were safe and happy. But as I look back on my experiences I understand the way I am because my dad taught me to be strong and to follow my dreams. Having a parent in the military is one of the hardest things a child might go through but the experience military kids get makes them into the strongest of them all. I'm glad I got to encounter it at a young age because it made me into the strong, independent person that I am today. I can say with the sacrifices made, my family adjusted to being a military family and it made us