Personal Narrative: Growing Up In A Divorced Family

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There is nothing more complex in this world than life itself. There are people who make over a million dollars a year while there are people who live in poverty, struggling to feed their family day to day. There are people who sit on their couch all day watching television while there are people who are paralyzed and are confined to their bed or chair There are people who have a mother and father who support them, while there are children who have lost both and will never experience their support. Regardless of how adverse someone life is we all go through hardships and these hardship can be in the form of defeat, death or despair and the most vital way to overcome these hardships in through the support of the ones closest to us. For many people, …show more content…

At an early of five years old, my parents got divorced because they could never agree on anything. To this day I questioned why and how they ever got married because they are so different from each other. My mother is a compassionate woman, with high tolerance to people and always gave them the benefit of the doubt while my father is an impatient, hard headed person whos modo on life is "my way or the highway". Due to the fact that they got divorced at such a early age for me, my father was not in the picture for a while so it made it difficult to build a relationship with him. When he did come around the only way he would show me love was to take me out to the movies and buy me things. His way of showing love was through gifts and fun things in order to avoid having meaningful conversation with me. At the time I didn’t realize what he was doing was wrong but I didn’t care because I just wanted to be with him. Now that I am older I can see that way of way of showing affection is wrong and it has had detrimental effects on my relationships with other people to this day. My father unknowingly embedded two things into my personality, not only is the way to show love is by buying thing but also receiving …show more content…

I dated a girl for about four years in high school into college and that alone comes with its own problems of because we were young and naive but we began to have other problems and mainly they were coming from me. For the two years we had a strong relationship but once we began to get older and build our foundation for our future I became more anxious than a normal person. I started to feel anxious of a future without her because so many things were changing for the both of us. We were both going to different school in different states. During this time we would fight so much because I would ask her to spend more time with me because I knew we not going to see each other as much and we did but for some reason I wanted more. I never felt satisfied with the amount of time we spent with each other and this caused many fights between us. She felt that we spent more than enough time with each other and she would constantly reassure me that nothing would change between us. At the time I thought all of this was normal but I eventually realized that the reason I felt so anxious about her leaving me is because I was relating it to my father leaving me as a child. While my father affected my life in a negative way my mother did the

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