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Cause And Effect Of Divorce

Cause and Effect We soon found out that Dad had left us struggling to be with our next door neighbor who had just left her husband also. They immediately moved in together. At first he came by to see Nikki and Ia couple of times a week; then it turned into once or twice a month. We finally got a phone number to reach him at, but the new woman in his life refused to let us speak to him. She was terrible to us, she wasour worst nightmare. She would do anything to keep us away from him, like not answer the phone, not tell him we called, not answer the door etc. She even as much as ripped up or letters we sent out of desperation to see or father and throw them away. She went as far as to cut up our school pictures. Finally after many years of torture from the as you could say evil step mother, my Daddy finally saw the light. It took almost 15 years of neglect to his children for him to realize that she had manipulated him into losing his family and everything that he loved so very much. Finally she was gone, he asked herto leave in a not so very nice way. The trauma that his actions caused two little girls, that loved there Daddy so very much, is unbearable to think of even today. It took many years to overcome our problems with Dad and we now have a decent relationship with him again. I didn’t realize until my early adulthood how much of an effect that the trauma of the divorce in my early childhood would still effect me on a day to day basis. I have learned that you must only depend on yourself and never depend on anyone else.My father leaving us has caused us all to have trust issues. It is hard to regain your trust in anyone once a trust is broken. My sister nor I are married and have never been married. It is not that we will never marry; it is difficult when having thesehard feelings that have built up a wall. The first thing that has negatively effectedme is that I could have been married a couple of different times. And yet I have chosen to remain single....

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