As a child everything was easy, I was handled like a fragile piece of china. As I grew older though, I realized life had a bigger meaning. After almost eight years of city life in the Arizona desert, my parents picked my brother and I up and moved to the small town of Bad Axe, Michigan.
Looking back, it seems that life started going downhill after arriving here. After a few years i was wrung through my parents divorce. Although it has been years since the divorce, I still feel like its new. Its almost like losing a family member, everything gets turned upside down and backwards. I was forced to choose between living with one parent or the other and peoples opinions were very persuading. I wish I could have seen what people were trying to tell me, but my decisions made me who I am today.
My life seems to be finally turning for the better, and I am a lot happier than I have been in a long time. After dating a guy for almost four years and breaking up with him one month after we got engaged, I am beginning to really realize how valuable life is. Being with someone that feels the need to control my entire life is not the way that i want to live anymore and I am very glad that I realized this before we got married. I finally was able to let go and understand that I could not be with someone for the rest of my life that felt the need to control me and had no trust for me.
Divorces are rough. I went through it all in third grade. Really takes a toll on a kid.
ReplyDeleteYea, it does. I was in seventh grade.
ReplyDeleteI have never personally experienced a divorce, but many of my friends have been through it and I have witness the change in the life style. Congratulation's on the alteration of your life in your own opinion. Figuring out a bad situation before you become married is a big step, but a hard one at that. So, good luck to your future.
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