In America, there is one divorce approximately every 36 seconds. That's nearly 2,400 divorces per day, 16,800 divorces per week and 876,000 divorces a year.

I have seen my own parents go through a divorce. It happened when I was 5 years old. At the time, I did not know what was going on but as time went on I began to understand.

In the beginning, it is a rough process. When you are bounced back and fourth between your parents, it becomes very stressful. One weekend you are with one parent and then the next weekend you are with the other. I also had to be bounced back forth between them to celebrate birthdays and holidays too. It is kind of like a modern day Hannah Montana living two different lives, except you are not pop star.

Then as the time goes by, you start thinking "why is this happening to me?" I know that is what I thought about for a long time. Having divorced parents is rough.

This is how my life was. When my parents divorced, I was bounced back forth between them like a bouncy ball. Sometimes I would have break downs because I did not know why this was happening. I heard countless phone calls between my parents fighting and yelling at each other all the time.

Then I started the alternate weekends with each parent. Every other weekend I would go to my dad's house. Along with the alternating weekends, I had to alternate holidays too. For example, one year I would spend Christmas Eve and Christmas morning with one parent and then spend the rest of the day with the other parent, then next year it would switch. Now, this was really hard because I lived with my mom.

When I was in 2nd grade, my dad starting seeing someone. I remember the day that I found out, one of my friends, who is now my step brother, came up to me at lunch and told me that my dad was seeing his mom. That same day my dad picked up from daycare after school, and sat in the back seat of the car with my arms crossed and he asked me if I was okay, and i replied with, don't you have something to tell. He then had to confess.

Now fast forward to 3rd grade, that was when my dad and my now step mom were engaged and were getting married. When they told the kids, I cried. I cried because it is hard to hear that your dad is getting remarried. At the time, I was thinking that he was replacing my mom. I cried for a long time about this.

When you are young it is hard to hear that your parents are divorced but when they say they are getting remarried that is even harder to understand. A huge change like that is hard to take in.

There were too many times to even count that I cried because I didn't want to be bounced back forth between my parents any more. But I had to keep going on. It starts to slowly break you down as time goes on especially when you are young and have to grow up going though it. As I got older, everything was just a routine, I always had my bag ready for weekend, I would leave school on Friday and spend every other weekend with my dad or spend the weekend with my mom.

When I was ending middle school, I began to realize that this is how the rest of my life would be. Then when I started high school, my mom got remarried. By this time I was about 14 years old and I was okay with it. It was just nice to finally see my mom happy again. This is when I finally realized that when your parents are divorced they both get to be happy again.

As I got older, everything started to fade away.

Now I am 19, and everything is good. Both of my parents are happily remarried. My parents get along and honestly everything is good.

Let's be honest having divorced parents can really suck, we all know that. Even though you are living a Hannah Montana life having two different lives with each parent, it isn't a glamorous life. This is just my experience with divorced parents, everyone has their different experiences, but this is mine. This is a look into my life from age 6 years old to now.

For anyone who has divorced parents, it will get better as time goes on. Remember that you aren't alone in this situation. There are a lot of people who are going through this or have gone through this that you can talk to.