I experienced divorce when I was six and I feel that this was a good time for it to happen. When My mom decided to divorce my dad after finding out he was cheating on her. I was imme-
diately sad because I was just a little kid and I didn’t understand
what was going on. I remember crying in my room while sorting
through my toys and deciding which ones I wanted to keep at my dad's and which I was taking to my mom's. I remember going
shopping for new clothes and coming home and putting a ‘K’ on each tag so that my mom's clothes wouldn't get mixed up with my dad's. Every time that I had to go to my mom's or dad's
I would have to make sure that I took everything I needed and wanted because if I didn't I wasn't going to get it until the next time I went over. The clothes that I would have to wear on Wed-
nesdays from my mom's to my dad's are the clothes I would always wear on Monday.

After a few months when we started to go to therapy, my mom
would take us every week to talk about the divorce and how we
were feeling. I feel like the idea that was always fed to me was
that “it’s not my fault,” which of course it never was. But I feel like I was constantly being reassured in therapy. I never really enjoyed therapy because my therapists were never ones I liked, 
they were old men who made me uncomfortable. And after the
therapy stopped, I felt like I was finally able to start processing
what had happened and how I felt. I was never angry at my parents for what they chose to do because they needed to work on themselves and today I have no feelings about the divorce at all. It happened and has been over for 15 years now and honestly, I'm happy with the life I had with both of them.

Some things still come up like they can't be in the same room together or they won't take photos together, which hurt at my graduation, but I am happy with what happened. But I don't think
I would be happy if that happened now. Being so young when it happened allowed me to sort of block out a lot of the emotions
I felt and, since I didn't fully understand what was going on, I feel like it has helped me recover from it faster. The people in my life who are experiencing divorce currently at an older age can feel everything and think about it all which is something that I never wish on anyone. But I would say I am happy my parents divorced when I was six.