Emmaline – As I look back now I see the impact divorce has had on me…I fear for my marriage and that of my siblings. I don’t want us to continue the cycle. It has to end.
I was raised in a Christian family by a loving Christian couple in the 90’s and early 2000’s. In the Midwest where there is a church on every corner, we grew up going to a Christian school and supportive church. It was in my early teenage years when divorce started to...
Susan – I was 13 years old when Dad left the second time…Is it any surprise that I deal with depression?
My adoption was in the works before I was born. My adoptive parents had been married about 9 years and had been unable to get pregnant. My adoptive mother wanted nothing more than to be a mom. My bio-mother was married, but had been intimate with another woman’s...
Stephanie – I cannot express adequately how the trauma of my childhood has carried over into my adult years
When I was just a toddler, my mom married my stepfather. She had just dissolved her marriage with my biological father mere months earlier. My stepfather brought 3 of his own children to the marriage. He had been divorced from their mother. My baby brother was a...