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Personal Narrative: My Divorce In My Family

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A personal experience that has made a mark in my life was my parents getting divorced. I am the first child, but by the time it all happened I was 9 and had a little 2 year old baby sister. I had no clue what was going on at the time or what to even think was even going on. As a little girl I was always with my mom and eventually grew very close to her. I spent most of my time with my mom rather than my dad. Any time that I would go out, I was always with my mom, whether it were to a school activity, a friends birthday, or to just go shopping no matter the occasion it was always just the two of us together. When it come to my dad, I was always …show more content…

My dad wasn’t around anymore and he started to pack his things up and eventually was “ living “ in the family living room. When I saw all this happening I got worried and asked my mom what was happening, and if we were moving but she told me “ No honey, nothing is wrong and we are not moving. I told you that Mommy and Papi were fighting too much, so we are taking a break and Papi is going to live somewhere else for a while till we fix things”. That is the moment where I realized that nothing in my house would ever be the same. At the time my baby sister was staying with my grandma, because my grandma was her babysitter, so it was just me at home. I felt so alone, and so sad. I felt like my little family was falling apart, and there were times where I felt as if it were maybe my fault or maybe I did something wrong and caused them to fight, but my mom was always reassuring me that it was not my fault and had nothing to do with

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