Personal Narrative: My Parent's Divorce

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During my freshman year in high school my parents decided to separate, and later divorce. The decision was an abrupt one, and the beginning of many challenges for me. The first decision I was faced with was which parent I wanted to live with. As a fifteen year old who had just entered high school and loved/needed her parents equally, this was a challenging task. Ultimately I resolved this challenge by choosing to stay with my dad. This decision had the most positive outcome because two of my other sisters decided to stay with my mom. Neither parent was left alone, and I was able to stay in the house I grew up in and continue to attend the same high school. Although this divorce was extremely hard on me, and it was difficult adjusting to a life without my mother and …show more content…

Although I did my best to maintain a “normal” life, my parent’s divorce was complicated by many factors, the most prominent one being their economic situation. Since both of my parents had a child that was under the age of 18, neither of them needed to pay child support, so both of them were raising children with only one income. In addition to that, my dad got laid off from work and was also dealing with the recent death of my grandfather. This put a big financial burden on him and forced me into a role of responsibility in caring for myself. At the time it seemed unfair and burdensome, however, taking this on at such a young age ingrained the values of responsibility that I hold very closely. Gaining a great amount of independence and accountability as a teenager has aided me a lot in my undergraduate years. I learned that no one was going to hold my hand and that I needed to work harder than most of my peers to get an education. I fully believe that my success academically can be attributed, at least in part, to this experience. My parent’s divorce was certainly a hardship growing up and changed my life forever, but I don’t reflect back on it negatively because of what I was able to take away from

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