Personal Narrative: My Parent's Divorce

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An event in my life that has taught me an important lesson is when my parents decided to get a divorce. Their divorce has greatly altered my life and continues to have an effect on me. My parent’s divorce has taught me the value of marriage and maintaining it. Holidays are now different for my brother and I. Having step parents is another weird factor because there is now a new person in your life that helps take care of you. Also, with my parents being divorced, I feel like my dad does not see as many of my accomplishments as he would if my mom and him were still married. At first, the divorce was hard, but now we all have a well-balanced routine which works most of the time. Divorce can be hard on children, but usually things turn out to be better with time. Holidays like Christmas are different than they used to be. When I was a kid, I remember getting a mountain of presents and opening them with my mom, dad, and baby brother. Now, I spend Christmas with my mom, stepdad, brother, and grandparents, and my dad just comes by to give us presents some time during Christmas break. The first Christmas after their divorce we still had Christmas together which was nice, but after that Christmases became discrete. Two separate Christmases can seem cool, but …show more content…

My mom started dating my stepdad six and a half years ago, and now they have been married three and a half years. He has two daughters who can be grueling to get along with. Only one of the daughters moved in with us, so having both a new step parent and step sister move into the house caused a great deal of change. My dad has been engaged to his fiancé for around two years now, so I consider her my step mom. Having a stepmom does not affect me like having a step dad does; because I only see my stepmom on occasion and seeing my stepdad is a daily occurrence. I have grown to like having step parents, and now I could not imagine not having them in my

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