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I've said too much stuff.
« Last Edit: February 18, 2016, 12:21:07 AM by Regirock »

i dunno much about coping since it didn't affect me that much but for schedule wise I just swap between my parents houses every friday. that way I get to spend a week with both.

I can't give any personal advice of my own, as I've not gone through the situation you're going through.
However there are a lot of online resources to give you advice about how to handle yours parents divorcing.
http://www.safeteens.org/relationships/dealing-with-divorce/
http://kidshealth.org/en/teens/divorce.html#

Where abouts in the world do you live?
Country/State? If you like, I may be able to find you a support chatline, where you can talk to an adult about how you feel, and ask questions and even get help.

idk I was like 4. but I don't remember really caring
it's easy now at least. I guess it would be different for parents who fought over custody, but soon after the divorce my mom went to jail (presumably related to divorce), so they never really got a chance to fight over custody. cus, like, my mom was in jail. nowadays though I live with my mom. my stepmom has like 5 kids so my sister and I just go over there to visit sometimes, cus when we're there there's 7 kids so u kno

your mom sounds like my mom. like one day I didn't come out of my room and talk to her for a couple of hours so like she came and talked to me and was cryin and saying like "why do you hate me" and junk??

you get double the presents
your parents still love you, and that counts a lot

just make sure you're not being fought over or being used as a bargaining tool

« Last Edit: February 18, 2016, 12:21:31 AM by Regirock »

I was too young to remember.

Going out to town, and spending more time playing immersive video games? Kinda helps me with my depression, but I dont know if this will help you or not.

Your mom sounds like a nasty cunt. Abandon her.

I dont have divorced parents, but a thing that should stop them from getting divorced is join in the middle of the conversation and try to reason with them. It saved me from my parents getting divorced


I dont have divorced parents, but a thing that should stop them from getting divorced is join in the middle of the conversation and try to reason with them. It saved me from my parents getting divorced
And now your parents resent you for guilting them into a loveless relationship gj.

Your mom sounds like a nasty cunt. Abandon her.
if the hostility gets too much for you, you don't need her

hope that it's temporary hostility though

I can relate to this very well. My parents divorced my 8th grade year, and it wasn't pretty at all. To the point of my mom using my sisters phone to text insulting messages to my dad. I kind of saw it coming really, they were always fighting.

The way I dealt with it was just playing a lot of video games. Seems cliche, but that's what helped me, and I often listened to the Skyrim soundtrack, it just calmed me down. My dad also had us signed up for family therapy, which I kind of thought was a bit too much, but it helped a little bit. In hindsight, I realize I kind of closed myself out from most things socially, which I definitely advise you to not do. It'll drive you crazy a bit depending on how affected you are by this.

Some other stuff happened between my parents that I don't feel the need to type about, none of them good. But for the most part, my advice is to try to be independent. Your parents might try to do stuff to convince you to be with them, or at least your mom most likely will, and they might let their ego get in the way and do stuff to spite the other. Do your best not to pay attention to their relationship too much and just focus on yourself, like school and/or work. The stuff between my parents made me upset for awhile, and made me lose focus on school, causing my grades to drop a bit. Still passed, but yeah, still not good.

Hope you'll be able to pull through this, and good luck to you, man.

Except my mom doesn't get all teary-eyed when she says it, she says it all hostile like, "Oh you guys don't care about me" and stuff like that.
it's the same idea though. like, my mom's not genuinely crying in that situation, she's doing it in an attempt to manipulate me

and otis is right. you don't wanna stick around someone who's gonna be trying to guilt trip you and stuff, if you have other options, especially if they're a parent
he's right about the other thing too. as much as you may not want it to happen, divorce is far better than trying to force your parents to stay together

like, who knows why your mom is acting like this all of a sudden. you know, maybe it's something at work. or... maybe it's the stress of continuing to be in a relationship that she doesn't wanna be in
she should probably see a therapist either way