Changing My Behavior-Personal Narrative

We were a happy family and we did everything together, camping, family vacations, and dinners. That slowly started to change in September 2013. My sisters and I realized that my parents haven’t been getting along like they used too. They were always yelling and screaming at each other. There were even days of pure silence in the house and it was hard to be around that every day. There would be fights in the middle of the night and during the day. As the year went on the yelling and arguing got progressively worse, it was starting to show at school as well. The worse my parents began arguing the worse my grades got and it showed in my behavior. As the months went on things didn’t get better. I had sleepless nights, days of just pure silence …show more content…
The process was very long and it made it harder to focus on school especially in high school where the work was difficult and focus was well needed. At times I even had CPS come to the school to ask questions, it was so embarrassing having to be called out of class to go and talk to child Protective Services. When those days did happen all I could think about was what have my parents done to my siblings when I wasn 't home. Luckily, that wasn 't the case, everything was fine with my sibling, no one was getting hurt it was just a routine that had to be done through the …show more content…
My parents being separated has taught me that I can be on my own, I can make my own money and that I don 't need to rely on my parents for everything. It showed me that even though a relationship may seem so great it might not be. My parents had problems long before they broke up and even before then it affected me. Today I still deal with the problems with my parents, but I push it out of the way. I learned that even though something is going wrong you can 't let it get to you. I deal with the issues when it comes but once it 's over I go back to doing