whenever people talk about their parents being divorced, i feel sort of weird because i have No Idea what that could be like. i never know what to say or do and it makes me uncomfortable. can someone give me a general idea of what it's like, in a way that someone with still-together parents can understand? it would be much appreciated.
Anonymous
09:16:09 PM
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You have two seperate houses. Two places you are expected to call home. Two sets of rules and responsabilities, two rooms to clean...
Every week packing a suitcase and living out of it. Keeping a closet in a bag and all your favortie toys get left behind. Dividing them up. Leaving it all behind.
Living two seperate lives. Two lies, in which you pretend like you were never the child of your parents, just so you don't have to remind your mother, your father of what a mistake it all was.
Imagine not being able to talk to one parent about the problems of another, not being able to ask permission to go out to buy birthday presents, mother's day, father's day. Not being able to mention the name of the other or love for the other without the yelling starting. The anger. The throwing things. Almost as bad as before they were divorced.
Your parents running around with weekly girlfriends or boyfriends like kids at school. Imagine parents being children. Imagine the holes punched in the wall and the tight money and the guilt.
Imagine parents fighting over who gets custody on holidays that should be times of togetherness.
Imagine being seven years old and watching your mother throw all the ornaments into the fire christmas morning because they reminded her of your father. Imagine waking up in the middle of the night to her crying.
Image how scared you'd be.
You're seven years old.
I was seven years old.
^so was I
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