BLOG #2

Patrick Sanderson

Second Blog

January 22, 2012

            The one event in my life that has radically changed me was when my parents got a divorce. I was six years old when my parents split up. I lived with my mom most the time and only saw my dad every other weekend. I’m very close to my dad so this was a really hard thing for me.

            My mom moved into a neighborhood and I had to leave the house that I grew up in and loved so much. I took a lot of my anger out on my mom and I blamed her for splitting up our family, which was very unfair. For a while I was a pretty bad kid. I didn’t listen to my mom at all. I know this was a direct cause from the divorce. I wish I had acted differently but at the time I felt like I was acting out for good reason.

            As I got older I got to choose where I was going to stay and I started staying at my dad’s house a lot more. Both my parents remarried and because of it I have brothers that I never would have had. I have a step mom that I am close with also. I can’t imagine what life would be like if I didn’t have my little brothers or my stepbrother.

            Many good things came out of my parents splitting up, but that was hard for me to see in the beginning. That’s the most important thing that I learned from it. It took me a long time to realize this but once I did I was able to cope a lot better with the divorce. Some times change is for the better, even if you can’t see it in the beginning.