This is a thought that is one of those heartbreaking ones I talked about early in the book. These ones will most likely be an event that I went through that relates to what I am thinking about.

For this, I'm going to talk about divorce.

Divorce is hard to process. It's especially hard to process when you're in fifth grade and you didn't even know why the word divorce even was when your parents separated. I was so confused and I couldn't understand what was going on. All I knew was that my dad was leaving.

It was hard. I thought my parents will get back together, but they never did. It's good though because my dad is a jerk. I won't go into specifies, but he's a jerk. My mom is happier now and I'm happy for her, but my heart is still fragile and nothing to play around with.

All I'm saying is that people say that anyone who divorces are 'selfish' and 'don't care for each other'. In some cases, that is true, but they forget to mention the ones who divorced because of cheating. They forget the ones who divorced because of abuse. They forget about the ones who divorced because of one parent abusing or neglecting the children. They forget about all of these people who divorce because of terrible things, but they know the ones who divorced because they didn't love each other anymore and only associate divorce with that.

That sucks.

Because of that, the children who were neglected/abused are forgotten. I was verbally and emotionally abused and neglected by my father. He also saw me three times when I was having chemotherapy. I was away from home for seven months. Since then, I haven't talked to him or seen him for four years.

I feel like children like me are forgotten when divorce is brought up. I'm just another statistic people forget about just to get a point across and it sucks.

Before I end this, I will just like to say that if your parents are divorced, it's not your fault. It's never your fault. Don't blame yourself, okay? Why your parents are divorced are between them and you will be brought somehow, but it is not your fault. Remember that.

Remember that I love you all.<3

P.S: If your parent/parents are jerks, just know that I will be your 'substitute mom'.:3

-Maddie🐧🐧🐧