Personal Narrative On Divorce

I am being forced to write this against my will so I guess I will talk about the time when my parents got divorced. I was seven years old at the time it happened and I honestly did not care about the divorce when I was younger because everyone acted like everything was fine, and the only thing different was that my dad was not around constantly. I soon learned something was not right when I would hear my mom crying at night when she thought everyone is asleep. My older brother and I were the ones who had to deal with my mom while she was a mess, and could not get dressed or even get out of bed. My younger brother was only 3 at the time, and still was too young to understand what was happening. I was only seven and had to care for my brother …show more content…
One day, my dad took my siblings and I to the park, and told us he wanted us to meet someone. Of course I was excited because I loved to meet new people when I was younger, but I soon learned that this person was my dad's’ new girlfriend who was 12 years younger than him. We all loved her, because she bought us candy and acted nice. Next thing you know she whisked him away to a small city of Sylvester which was located an hour away from where I …show more content…
I soon became detached from my father and our relationship became strained and I could barely stand to be in the same room with him anymore.I didn’t know how to communicate my feelings with my dad, so I just shut him out of my life and also Hollie. I pretended to be fine, because I didn’t want my father to be hurt at the fact that I felt like I was losing him to a cougar and didn’t even feel like his daughter anymore. A few months pass by and I’m still unable to feel normal around my dad anymore. One day while at my father’s house my younger brother and I received some news, and it was that Hollie and my dad were getting married. I instantly broke down in front of them, because I didn’t know how to cope with my dad being with anyone besides my mom because that relationship is all I ever knew. They rushed to have the wedding; it was a private wedding and it was only them. I refused to go to Sylvester for the next few weeks because I couldn’t stand the thought of seeing Hollie and my father