Have we ever said anything negative about our families? I know I have. Sometimes it's hard to like someone who you spend so much time with. I never thought my family would change. I thought it would be us against the world.

But it was my senior year of high school when my parents told me they were getting a divorce. And surprisingly, I didn't freak. Something inside me knew that something was up. And that was something I didn't want to be right about. Having your parents split is not the end of the world. It may seem like your family is broken and that nothing will ever be the same. But you still have your parents.

Divorce is not the end of a happy family. It’s the start of a new one. You now have double the fun. Two houses, and some may say two lives. I find myself talking to different people about different things. My parents can't help me with everything, so I split my problems between the two. Somehow we got it into our heads that we are supposed to turn perfect when we get married, and that isn't the goal.

It was finalized last year during my first year in college and I didn’t tell many people, because I wasn’t sure what to say. I wasn’t sad I was just confused. Because while having your parents split may seem traumatizing, how might it be for them? You are their whole world and they have put you first since day one.

Being the child of a divorcement has given me a realistic view point of relationships. That it isn't going to be all sunshine and happiness, and that sometimes bad things happen. Some of the most unhealthy relationships I know are the ones that grew up thinking they wanted to be just like their parents, but you're not them. And we all have our own interests.

Divorce is not the end. And your family isn’t broken, it's just a little bent.