Your Family Will Always Be There For Me Essay

“Your family will always be there for you” is what my mom has told my siblings and I as we grew up over the years. She constantly instilled this into us and stressed family values and morals. I am one of four children and came from parents that were high school sweethearts. As a young child, I built a strong connection with my father but slowly I started to notice our bond was slowly fading away. For example, I vaguely remember my dad started to not show up at family dinners and didn 't take me to the liquor store after school to get Hot Cheetos and Cactus Cooler, which is a daily routine that we always did together. As time passed by, I was in 3rd grade when I finally noticed that my father was permanently not living at home and I was never told why. My siblings and I then started to see my dad come back in forth into the house every

I was a child when I found out that my father cheated on my mother and had to accept that their marriage was over and that I would have to spend separate time and events with both of my parents. I truly had to learn how to forgive my father for the mistake that he had done, even though it took me 5 years to get over it, I eventually did because he will always be my father and what he did to my mother should not affect the love he had for me and my siblings. It is hard for a young teenager to get over obstacles and that is because the maturity level is not learned and is not there. But with time, I matured and learned that life is too short to hold on to what people have done wrong to you. Even though it took me awhile to accept the divorce between my parents and how the affair affected our family, I am glad that I was able to overcome something so difficult because it taught me life values and qualities which helped me mature into the person I am