When my mother and father divorced, I felt like it wa the end of the world. It eemed a if a cold had ettled over me, and that there wa no uch thing a a reliable relationhip anymore. But a I've grown older, I've actually come to appreciate the breakup.My family went through ome growing painand we all had to re-evaluate ourelve and our family dynamic, butultimately the divorce ha erved to bring my family cloer together than we might have been had my parent not eparated.
My parent divorced when I wa around 11 year old. I never thought I'd ee my father again. However, he didn't jut vanih from ight. He lived in the ame neighborhood, and he'deemy brother and mepretty much every weekend. I had to adjut to not eeing my dad every day anymore, which wa difficult, but with time thing got eaier. We would go to a movie or out to dinner on weekend, and I dicovered aide of him I never knew before. My father eemed happier, and in return he lavihed affection on me and my brother, omething he'd never really done before. Thee experience with my dad encouraged me to tart focuing on the poitive apect of the divorce, and the good that cam come from it.A I got older, I found my older brother wa quickly becoming my bet friend and advior, omething that wouldn't have happened to me had my father till been living at home. My brother helped me when I needed to know how to ak out girl or how to fight, and he even helped me with my calculu homework at night when my mother would be at chool. If my dad had been there all the time, I wouldn't have had the ame opportunity to really get to know and repect my brother in the ame way. Now that I'm almot a "man", I ee how I have become what I am by learning from my father' mitake and from the reourceful advice of my brother. I'm ure it wan't alway eay for my brother to take on thi mentoring role, but he roe to the challenge andwa alway there for me when I needed him.My relationhip with my mother i alo extremely cloe, cloer than it would have been had my father lived at home and perevered in the negative behavior. that ultimately led to their divorce. My mom i a h2 woman and he' alway beenhonet and upportive, even in the wort of time. Following the divorce, he worked really hard to keep our family thriving, even under our new arrangement.WWw.hAOZUowEn.com
I'm not aying that the divorce wa a wonderful event, but I believe that the bond between my mother, brother, and myelf i much h2er ince we learned valuable leon about depending on one another rather than on ome kind of Ward Cleaver father-huband figure. My relationhip with my dad ha alo improved. There have been hard time without my father around, but in the end, the "trouble" of my parent' divorce actually opened a few door for my family, and preented the opportunity for u to grow even cloer to one another.