To The Parent Who Doesn’t Get To Celebrate My Success
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To The Parent Who Doesn’t Get To Celebrate My Success

I won't let this time be about anything other than my hard work.

Danielle Burke
Apr 10, 2018
Rowan University
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To The Parent Who Doesn’t Get To Celebrate My Success
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Being a child of divorced parents comes with a couple of different experiences. Some people have parents who still get along; they just don’t work out together. Some people have parents who don’t get along at all, but they do what they have to do for the kids.

Then you have some parents who refuse to put their differences aside and they are not in their kids’ lives at all.

My parents got divorced when I was a lot older, so my experience is different right off the bat. I always knew it was best for all of us, and I was happy that we could all agree that we needed to be happy, separately.

However, I have a parent who chose not to take the high road, who decided their differences with my other parent couldn’t be put on a back burner for my sister and me.

And for that reason, along with others, they won’t be invited to celebrate my graduation in a month. They have no idea what major I even went to school for. To be honest, I’m not sure they even know where I go to school.

To the parent who doesn’t get to celebrate MY success, I’ve decided to not to give you the opportunity to make another special occasion about yourself. I won’t let my hard work and happiness take a back seat to your bad attitude, especially as I celebrate my biggest accomplishment.

I’ve decided not to wait around for a phone call from you congratulating me for anything because, in the end, the conversation always ends up about you.

I’ve decided that since you chose not to aid in my academic achievement, you don’t get the honor to watch me complete it. Since I started college, I don’t think you ever asked me what I was studying, what I wanted to do for a living or anything that MOST parents talk to their kids about.

I’ve decided to start a brand-new chapter of my life and not write you in it. I’ve decided my happiness and success never had anything to do with you in the first place, so it shouldn’t start now.

The only thing I can thank you for is letting the three of us go because, without you, we are happier, stronger, and so much better.

Sincerely,

Your daughter, an advertising major and honor society member at Rowan University
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