tips for girls with divorced parents
just focus on what you have, not what you don’t. it won’t serve you. having divorced parents starting at 2, who couldn’t communicate with each other as a kid made me an angry girl. i lashed out, i was jealous & i felt so different because i went to this perfect school with kids filled wirh perfect families. i was the only kid in my grade of 18 people with divorced parents. i didn’t realize at the time but it really effected me not really having a family structure. until it didn’t anymore.
until i realized that being mad about this wasn’t helping my life. but making it even worse beyond the actual circumstance. i started looking at the pros. i got two christmas’s, i got a more interesting life with more stories to tell, i got more experiences & more people in my life such as my step mom & my half sisters. i mean it when i say i wouldnt have changed a thing about my upbringing. even the shitty parts. especially the shitty parts. it made me cooler. cooler is the word i use because that’s what i mean when i mean different i guess. & im now fianlly being able to accept that my differences make me seriously better. seriously. having divorced parents may cause you a lot of pain & a bunch of crap you don’t want to hear or see. but if you look at it right you will gain so in terms of who you are & skills you can use your whole life that you never would have gained had to had the perfect family
