How many of you come from a divorced parent background?
By pyewacket
@pyewacket (43903)
United States
April 4, 2007 4:24pm CST
I was just curious how many of you had parents that were divorced and what the impact of it was. My parents divorced after only three years of marriage, I was only a year and a half year old. Now maybe in one sense I was lucky, if you can call it that, since I knew a lot of people whose parents got divorced when they were much older and it really tore them apart, so in effect, my parents having divorced when I was so young, in effect only a baby didn't have the same trauma for me--at the same time, I never got to know my father save for the things that my mother said about him...and none of it was positive--yet I never made any judgements against him since he wasn't there to defend himself nor did I get his side of the story.
Also, did your parents ever remarry? My mom never did.
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@scarlet_woman (23463)
• United States
5 Apr 07
my parents never divorced,but they came as close as you possibly could.they got all the way up to signing the papers,and changed their mind.
it was hell,and both lawyers tried to make me and my brother lie on the stand.
@pyewacket (43903)
• United States
5 Apr 07
What kind of lawyers did you have to tell you to purposely lie on the stand--that's purgury and a capital offense--too bad you didn't say something and could have had the lawyers disbarred from the law practice
@Galena (9110)
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5 Apr 07
they weren't married, but we left when I was about 7 or 8 because he was a vile and hateful man.
this isn't the opinion I was fed. I kept seeing him until I was 14, then decided I didn't want any more to do with him as I found his behaviour and opinions so spiteful.
my mum remarried about 10 years ago, and my stepdad is lovely.
@Joerib (82)
• Belgium
4 Apr 07
My parents spit up like 5 months ago.
I've a lot of contact with my father now, I only see my mother for about 5 minutes in 2 weeks, which is enough.
My mother came with the story that the had another guy for already 2 years, if i think about it, it still pisses me off!