Kim
“One of my very first memories was of walking down the steps and telling my parents to stop fighting because it was the Devil making them so angry.”
Shelter In the Storm
“My parents were divorced when I was ten years old and it seemed that life only got hard from that point on. We moved from a house to a small apt. with my mother and the struggling began… I’d already made up my mind that I was going to hate my life.”
Rachel Burkum
“My parents divorced. The world and life as I knew it became utter chaos, and as a young teenager, I was at a complete loss. Except for one thing. My 'ever-present help in trouble.' Looking back, I can see each and every person that God used to lift me up and encourage me during that time in my life.”
Mark Larson
“The result of their divorce shook the foundation upon which I stood. That foundation was those two principles, and not Jesus Christ. I didn’t know up from down… I was placing all of my hope, trust, love, identity, pride and belief in my parents.”
Susan Stafford
“It wasn’t until the age of 12 when my mother had finally divorced him. By then I was hanging out with the wrong group of kids.”
Michelle Liga
“My parents had troubles while I was young---finally in 1979 my mother divorced my father (he was cheating on her). My father was never the father he should have been---all I really remember when I mention his name is his anger.”
Star Burch
“I grew up like a lot of kids today, with just a mother and my father wasn't around much. I knew who he was, so I guess in that respect I was more fortunate then others.”
Gene Sullivan
“After Gene was born, the two were divorced… Gene and his brother Mark were taken to their grandparents, where they stayed for three years. It was during this time that Gene's belief and relationship with God began.”
Dennis Campbell
“I was at very young age when my parents divorced, so I'm guessing a majority of the reason why I became spoiled was because of the fact that my father was absent from the home. I didn't have constant discipline that boys at my age need. When I did things that were not right, I didn't have that firm discipline that would prohibit me from repeating the same behavior.”
David Fenwick
“Throughout my life I have had many family issues, and I have not necessarily had it easy. My dad has always had drinking problems, mom has been in bad marriages, and we've struggled to make it on a daily basis.”
Anita
“When she left my father and took my sister and I away, she readily bought me books on numerology and mystical folklore.”
Mary R
“My parents divorced in 2003; my dad has since remarried, and my mom is now also a lesbian with a live-in partner, like her older half-sister.”
Tom Durst (2)
“By late summer of 195l mom and dad finally separated after years of a very unhappy marriage and mom and I moved into town and started attending the church that she had belonged to many years before.”