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It hadn’t quite settled in yet, but I knew that this was going to be the most difficult thing I had to face in my entire life. We were the perfect family – always laughing and smiling, wonderful dinners always cooked to perfection, the mere comfort of knowing that everything would be taken care of – and the fact that my parents were getting divorced just didn’t seem to make much sense in my wonderful life. There would be no more laughter throughout the household, but rather yelling and fighting that would leave an impact on me for a long time to come. As I started my years of high school, it was very difficult for me to focus on my schoolwork. Just knowing that I would have to come home to a situation in which I would possibly have to choose sides in another one of my parents’ fights was enough to ruin my entire day. While it did take quite some time to adjust, I realized that I would just have to accept the fact that this is how life would be for a while. All of a sudden I had to fend for myself