Parents’ Unofficial Separation

My parents have been separated although not legally/officially but they are. If I am not mistaken, they’ve been sleeping in separate rooms, dealing daily living separately even when they were still living under one roof and fighting like cats and dogs for almost four years.

Although they have managed to stay casual during important family gatherings, we, the children are still affected by the shattered relationship between the two of them. The once sweet and loving couple is now living like a couple of strangers. It’s just sad that our parents’ have arrived into a situation I’ve never wished them to even go through. It cannot be helped and cannot be forced. There is no longer fire of love in their hearts; I had wished they’ve preserved their friendship at least yet I can’t sense the presence of it when they are talking to each other.

At the present, I and my sisters are staying with dad at our new apartment while my brother stays with mom. My brother visits us here in the apartment every week while mom only stops by when she has to when she has something important to do in the city. The apartment is an hour ride away from home. This situation made me recall about the division of children between parents when involved in parents’ separation. I was once told that when parents break up, the male child goes home with the mother while the female goes home with the father, leaving the children no choice but follow. To us, the children, we have no choice but to put up with our parents’ decision for there is no way for them to be together again. I am honestly getting used to it. We are only together, all of us complete on Christmas. I can’t wait for Christmas!