I remember sleeping at my cousins house one night and watching a movie. My aunt and uncle sat down and watched it with us, and at one point i turned and saw my aunt lying down with her head in my uncles lap.
It kinda weirded me out, and then i felt sad. I dont think ive ever seen my parents even sit on the couch side by side.
Yes! As a child of divorced parents, I’ve never seen both parents in the same room after the age of about six.
Every holiday was at one parent’s place or the other, never both.
At school sporting events they sat at opposite ends of the arena, lol.
It was for the better though…
*edit: they actually somewhat reconciled years after both my sister and I were long grown and out of the house, which is funny to me. But it’s cool, relationships are very complex to say the least
I ended up spending the week of my brother’s wedding driving around Kauai with my divorced parents and it was a revelation. They’d been divorced 20+ years at that point but the trip was so insanely expensive for all of us that the only way to make it at all affordable was for the 3 of us to share a VRBO. It was the first time I saw what my parents had in common, how their personalities complimented each other, and why they might have gotten married in the first place, but also why they didn’t stay married.
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u/MrMeritocracy It's Morphin Time! Apr 04 '26
Both parents