Personal Narrative: How Divorce Changed My Life

Everyone has a story and a place where it all began. My story began in New Brunswick, New Jersey shortly after my second birthday. When I was two years old my parents finalized their divorce. This ignited a series of events that would teach me to be the independent, compassionate, and resilient young woman I am today.
The divorce came abruptly after we lost nearly everything we owned in a major flood caused by Hurricane Floyd. The divorce and the flood left us with virtually nothing. Fortunately, my mother remarried in 2001 ending our financial and stability dilemmas. My mother became pregnant in 2003 and found out early in the pregnancy that her future son would have serious health complications. When he was born, they found that he

She was psychologically unstable. Over the past four years that I have lived with her, we have moved four times. Roughly two and a half years ago we moved to North Carolina. My mother could not adjust to the foreign environment and the move incited her severe depression. Moving to North Carolina required me to leave everything and everyone I knew behind in Pennsylvania and New Jersey. I fell into a depression and had to work harder than usual to adjust to my new home and school. Eventually my life began to even out as I realized I needed to take care of my mother. My stepdad, a recovered alcoholic relapsed shortly after we moved to North Carolina which worsened my mother’s depression. Her depression had not ceased since we first moved to North Carolina until it reached its peak two weeks before my senior year started. She attempted suicide this past summer. Because I am the only person she has in this state, I have made it my priority to aid her in her recovery.
In conclusion, my past has shaped who I am in ways unimaginable to the majority of my peers. Poverty and parenthood are two situations I became accustomed to early in my life. These events have taught me to persevere through any circumstances I may encounter. Considering my family has always depended on me, depending on people has never been an