Personal Narrative: How Divorce Changed My Life

By the time I was a sophomore in high school, my parents had already been divorced for two years and my mother had lost her job. Near the end of my first semester, I was receiving calls from both of my parents during school every day about custody and school. I could not study for any of my classes and to make matters worse, my mom sold the house and forced us to move to an area almost an hour away. I ended up failing all of my finals and started caring less about school. I transferred schools and during second semester, arguments over custody ended up with my brother and I suffering. One day, we were left outside the doorsteps of my mom's house for 6 hours in the cold the night we were supposed to return to her custody. She came home at 4 in the morning, and put all the blame my dad despite her …show more content…
That was a mentally scarring incident. I did not know who to trust; my dad would tell me one thing while my mother would tell me another. I started to think that the divorce was my fault and that that everything happening was because of me: I was such a disappointment that my parents both did not want me anymore. Depression hit and I stared at a knife every day contemplating suicide. I thought that maybe if I died then I could run away from these problems.
My little brother saved me from that hole of depression. No matter how cliché the situation may seem, he is the reason that I’m writing this statement today. I thought about what would happen to my brother after I was gone and thought about the path my parents were setting for him. I took it upon myself to become the role model for my brother. In order to show him how to be emotionally and mentally tough, I couldn’t let him watch my life just fade away. I started to focus in school and slowly raise my grades. I