“We’re getting divorced.” It’s the words all kids don’t want to hear. Questions drift through your mind. “Was it my fault?” “Why is this happening to me?”…
I was just relieved it didn’t have to affect me, or so I used to think. My parents got a divorce when I was 10 years old, and I didn’t know what to think or how to handle it. Thankfully at that age I was a little optimistic and was able to see and hear both sides.…
“How are you cadet?” he asked. “I feel like shit, sir.” “Look Fernandez’, I know you don’t know me that well, but if you wanna talk, I’m here.” “I never thought my parents would divorce.” “Is that what’s beating you up?”…
I could not take my baby to live in the dorms with me therefore I moved back home with my mom. Living with my mom was very stressful. My mother did not cope well with the divorce from my father. I was not working or bringing in any income into my family home. Everything that I needed was being taken care of for me by my dad, my mom or my boyfriend.…
"What a harsh break up I went through" I thought to myself. After so much time being spent together, so much closeness has fell into separation. Who would've thought? Not I. Everything started when arriving back home from a cruise/her birthday. These are the three ways I was able to overcome the depression after having a bad break up.…
What I went Through During My Parents Divorce As long as they talk it out t will be ok , right? I didn’t like the idea of having two of everything. I thought how do you divide 3 into 2 and then how would that work in different locations. I also wondered how my siblings felt about the situation. Were they as confused as I was and would this be a permanent change in my life?…
One time where I had to be a leader and help others out was when my field hockey team and I were facing our biggest opponent of the season; Columbus Academy. The whole entire game was an upfield battle as both teams were very skilled and kept each other on their toes. As the game went on, I saw that many of the girls on my team were becoming very frustrated, as the hard work they were putting in got shot down by the other team. When it reached the end of the game, the score had been a tie; 0-0. This resulted in an overtime 7 vs. 7 game.…
I’ll never forget that day, April 20, 2006, the day my divorce became final. After twelve years of hell, I was set free. My ex-husband and I met as teenagers and fell into a whirlwind romance.…
A challenge or obstacle I have overcome that impacted my life educational would be my parents divorce. I love both my parents with all of my heart, and when they got divorced everything changed. In the beginning my mom would get us up at five am to get us to school on time. Living an hour away from school wasn’t my ideal living situation. While my mom lived in Randall, my dad resided in St.Cloud.…
“Divorce, huh?” I whimpered. In a moment, the carefully constructed lines on my mom’s face that arduously painted her contained sorrow, melted into tears, while my dad’s despondent eyes watered into an ocean that his boat could never wade through. In I walked into the room of a finished marriage.…
We waited till the end of the school year to move back but by then my parents had drifted so far from each other it was obvious there was no chance of my dad coming, not now and not ever. My parents were never married so technically there was no divorce but they were defiantly no longer together, the way my mom explained it was that they would always love each other and us, but they were just not in love anymore, not really understanding the difference, I just went along with it, and since my dad and I were never really close, The fact that he wasn't coming didn't bother me. Once again we found our selves packing our things into the back of a U-Haul truck ready to go back.…
I will be the first to say that I am pretty lucky that I have not faced a difficult challenge in life that has stopped me from loving the people I love. Therefore, writing about this may be a little challenging for myself. However, one major change in my life that could have affected me more than it did is the divorce of my parents. When I was 12 years old, I was faced with big news that was frightening. The hardest part was having just my father break the news to me because my mother wanted to wait.…
Divorce was once an unheard of occurrence. People did not believe in it and kept their word of their vowels, “Till death do us part.” In earlier years, divorces were extremely regulated with strict laws. Majority of the time, spouses could only file for a divorce under certain circumstances such as if adultery was committed, if it was an abusive relationship, or if there was infidelity. But even then, there still had to be evidence to back up any accusations for the significant other to be proven guilty.…
“Why?” I yelled. “Why can’t you just get along!?” I screamed while holding my yellow Winnie The Pooh under my blue ceiling.…
Cierra Follett Autobiography Sophomore Honors English As a child, I lived a near-ideal life. I was the youngest among my brother and a sister, my parents were together, we had a nice house in the small town of Snohomish with acreage, and a family dog was always around. I was raised by Christians and was expected to live by these standards. Until the summer of 2014, the most that I had to worry about was how I would tease my older sister that day.…