Personal Narrative: My Experience With Divorce

Beginning at the age of three, my life had encountered a series of maelstroms and conflicts that would go far past what would be considered acceptable content for a childhood. The pivotal turn in which reshaped my youth was my parent’s bitter divorce. As a result of this disbanding of the core family unifier, I was relocated into a home where I found myself encroached with apprehensive turmoils and under the stern hand of an abusive grandfather. At three years old, my parents ended their strained relationship in a divorce. I can only remember the harsh conclusion of their marriage, as before two my recollection of events was strained due to my young age. Their relationship descriptively settled into my mind as the antithesis of a healthy marital …show more content…
This resulted in my coming into my mother’s custody, only getting to see my father every other weekend. My mother and I moved into my grandparents’ house that summer. Unbeknownst to me, the hardships in my life were only beginning, as the five years that I lived in that household were riddled with physical and emotional abuse from my grandfather. It has been often conjectured that these antagonistic attitudes towards me had something to do with his extreme disdain for my father, who had at the time also served as the only person to initiate a break in the abuse, due to his collecting of me every other weekend. In 2008, my parents attempted to overcome past afflictions and restore their relationship for both my sister and my own sake. For two years, their revitalized marriage, and the reunifying of a family, seemed to appear to be a positive notion of change. This reunion was short lived, as a final altercation between my parents ended any possibility of a rekindled relationship. From these experiences, I learned that I should never allow a situation that I find myself in to definitively shape both the person that I am, as well as who I will