The Impact of Divorce

             There are so many things about the word "divorce" that are confusing. It doesn't just affect two individuals, but it infects the emotions of so many others and it can literally destroy the people around them. Sometimes it may be difficult to not understand why it happens, but it does. The divorce between my stepfather and my mother was a horrible, tragic, and very emotional time for me. I never saw myself having to go through anything like that, no one does and as much as I didn't want to face it, I had no choice.
             My mother and Kevin's divorce didn't just come and go. From the first day it was filed, the divorce lasted for two years. I was unaware exactly why the divorce was happening. Kevin has accused my mother of doing drugs and being an extreme alcoholic which shocked me as well as everyone else. Everyone that knows my mother knows that this wasn't even remotely related to the truth. Throughout the divorce, I realized how much Kevin was hurting my mother by putting her down and accusing her of things that she wouldn't even think of doing, ever. It had been going on for two years before the divorce came about. They were not on speaking terms and were constantly fighting. Kevin even tried to take my money that I personally had earned. He also told my mother and I that we didn't deserve to wear the clothes that we had on our backs.
             There were days that I was so upset and scared to go anywhere near Kevin and even my mother, that I would be alone in my room laying on my bed blasting music, so I could block the noise from the fighting. I had been crying so much that I didn't think there would be any more tears left for me to cry. .
             The divorce put me into a huge stage of depression. There were times that I would constantly eat no matter if I was hungry or not. The divorce had an unhealthy effect on me that I was depressed up until around my junior year of high school. I never thought anything could have such a big effect on my life.