Divorce Informative Speech

The Divorce

Have you ever felt like you were never going to be happy again? I have. I’m going to tell you about my parent’s divorce. I have chosen to write about this, because this is something that has bothered me for a long time and one of the most personal things to me. I’m going to tell you of how I felt, what I went through, and what I chose to do.

To begin with, my parents had been together for a few years before they decided they were going to get married. When they got married, they decided to live in Alden together and start a family. They had my sister first, and then about a year and a half later, they had me. Three years later, they decided to have my younger brother. When I was three, my parents ended up getting divorced. It ended up not working out because they were arguing a lot of the time. I’m not aloud to see my mom because she is on drugs and was very abusive in the relationship with my dad.

Next, after my parents had gotten a divorce, my older sister and I would go to my mom’s house every other weekend.

My dad kept trying to get full custody of us but he only got partial custody where my older sister and I had to go to our mom’s house every other weekend. That was until my mom had gotten into an abusive relationship. After that, dad had gotten full custody of my sister, my brother, and I. My mom had a hard life due to being bi polar and her step dad beating her. She had become an alcoholic as a

teenager.

Last Christmas break, my mom had tried contacting me through Facebook. We had only talked for a couple weeks when she had started saying that she wanted to see me, because the last time I had seen her I was six. Due to the way the court system had been, dad had to talk to the court and send proof that they had talked about us meeting up. She had only answered us once about meeting up but her and my dad argued on the phone saying that she would get full custody and if she didn’t she would come pick me up and take me away to live with her. She later on ended up not answering my dad because she thought it was a trick because my dad has never let us see her due to when she left us she got into drugs really bad. I felt sad when she didn’t answer and that I had messed something up. Dad had me delete her off social media and tell her goodbye. The moment I told her goodbye, I could feel my heart break and that I would never get the chance to actually sit down and get to know my biological mom.

Now, my mom is living in California. The cops have been trying to find her for a long time because she was living in Wellsburg and got busted for drugs and she took off running. In September, she was supposed to go to court for not paying child support and skipped out on that. When they put a warrant out for her arrest, she had found an old friend from her hometown, Palmdale, California and moved with them. I know that it’s a very slight chance but I would still love to have an opportunity to meet my mom.