I’m doing a research paper and I could use your answers as evidence. Please answer honestly. Also, tell me why you think the way you do…if you went through a divorce, if your a teacher, or a therapist, etc. Thank you!
Well, to be quite honest, it was the best thing my parents have ever done for me.
From the time I was born until they got divorced at age 7, I watched them fight each other. Blood battles, really. Dad fist fighting mom- Mom yelling cuss words, *birds* flying. Not fun stuff. Not only that, but I’d "get in the way" and be swept up into the abuse.
The mental, physical and emotional abuse that I experienced in my first 7 years of life scarred me for the next 13 years. I went through counseling, because I had a hard time trusting men- I honestly thought they’d all end up beating me. (As several did).
Thankfully, I had my grandmother to take care of me from 7-18, and that was the best thing anyone has ever done.
But that emotional and physical abuse sustained in childhood from a bad marriage is worse- far-far worse than anything divorce could do. If couples were to divorce before such violence cropped up, and talked to their children about why it was happening (talked to them in a civilized, kindly manor) the children would be upset- but take it far better.
