The Turning Point Of My Family

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The Turning Point
“..to have and to hold from this day forward, for better or worse,” Those are the words every couple say right before the official status of husband and wife. My Mom and Dad dated in college during their sophomore year. That next year, my Mom was pregnant with twins at the age of 21.My Dad was 22. Since my family is heavily into our faith, the next thing for my parents to do was to get married.My parents stayed married for 13 years. Up until my seventh grade year , my life was pretty close to perfection. My parents was basically the happy couple.They would get my sister and I ready for school in the mornings. They would cook together and read my sister and I stories at night. However, everything slowly started to change. I started to notice the little things my parents liked doing together. Some dinner nights, and breakfast mornings would be my sister, I, or just only my …show more content…

I live in a small town and the word gotten out pretty quickly. I guess a person would say my parents were #goals. The biggest surprise to me was how my church reacted. Everyone constantly asked me if my sister and I was ok. No one really asked my Mom. Everyone mainly went to my Dad. My hometown is basically fill up with my Dad side of the family. So, when my parents announced they are getting a divorced, everyone assumed that my Mom wanted the divorce. However, it was really my Dad who wanted the divorced .My Mom really wanted to work it out and go to therapy. My parents kind of put on a front to the church and said it was a mutual decision.My sister and I really knew it was my Dad that wanted it. A few of my aunts on my Dad side still considered my Mom as family. During this transition, I often stayed with them a few nights with them until my parents officially moved out and got their own

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