Divorce: A Short Story

Divorce, it is a very heart-breaking word to many people in thew world, it usually happens because one of the spouses lost feelings for one another. Now what happens if they have a child? A child living in an environment devoid of love and the feeling of wholeness will completely change the way they grow up and mature. This essay will tell the story of a scared boy dealing with a divorce and evolving from it in order to become a better person. In my early childhood my family included me, my sister, mother and father. Our lives felt normal and we all loved each other just as any other family did; we went out to the mall, ate at restaurants, watched movies, and etc. But as I grew up I could get the feeling that something was changing around …show more content…
As the feeling of isolation grew so did my anger and confusion, I kept asking myself “why did she do it!?” and “ how could she do it!?”, I wanted to just let it out and scream at her for betraying us, but at the same time I asked myself, “what made her do that?” and “did we not give her enough love?”. The feelings of anger and sadness were all jumbled together and confused me to the point where I just wanted to stop thinking about it, eventually I fell into the abyss called my room where all I did was play video games and watch videos of other people trying to find an escape from my own life. I only left my room for school. This continued for months and months until one day, I finally had an Epiphany after sitting in the same dark room everyday for the past few months. I thought to myself that I am just wasting time sitting here and that in order to get rid of the sadness and confusion in my heart, I need to face the facts and move on once and for all. In order to move on I knew I had to talk to my mother again so I called her on the phone for the first time in a while and had a serious talk to her about why she did it, she had done it because she did not feel loved for a very long time and she wanted to feel it again, although I was still hurt by this I accepted this and moved forward. Since I have finally had closure on this topic, I decided to find a job so that I could stop relying on my parents and become more independent, I scoured far and wide in order to find something that I could handle as a first job and after months of looking I finally found something I could handle and do myself, from here I could feel in my heart that things were going to change for the