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Contant yelling and a mood of bitterness, anger, and chaos is what the household will most likely be like forever if the parents stay together.
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those parents that fight with their children in earshot are just the people i am talking about. divorce is traumatizing for children, just as seeing their parents fight is. trust me, i've been through that. my parents did NOT fight around my brother and i. if anything they would bicker about normal things, like dessert or television. but they did not yell and scream back and forth. unless i've completely blocked that out...my parents did argue and fight, but they made sure to hold off until dave and i were not around. when they separated, i was devastated. i did not show it for quite some time, but i would cry a lot because of it. i missed my dad, i missed living away from him, and i missed eating together as a family. i still miss all of this stuff and while i believe my parents have a better reason for separating than most people, i still think it's stupid and i regret that it had to happen that way. it leaves a person without a true sense of belonging. at least it left me that way. i know that my parents care for each other, and they get along fine as friends now. and i know that they love me, but it totally ripped me apart when i was little. that was the divorce, not the fighting.
11-07-2002, 01:32 PM
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