Broken: When Parents Split

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. A persistent triad was then formed, not among mother, father, and child; but rather, a subsystem was created among my mother, my sister, and I—a situation detrimental to any family structure (Minuchin 291).
In the course of my adolescent years, I became immune to my parents’ marital struggles caused by cultural disparities and conflicting child-rearing techniques, convincing myself that I was not the least bit bothered by their forthcoming separation. I was almost happy that they were on their way to find individual happiness apart from each other and that the conflict-ridden home I had known for so all my life was approaching extinction. Now I realize how deeply I have been affected and how much I long for that pseudo-divorced home where I had easy access to both my mother and father, even if they did not present a united front or communicate with one another—a situation that Rothbaum and Dyer-Tarquino claim to bear extreme negative consequences (Rothbaum and Dyer-Tarquino 7). My parents’ stubbornness to adapt to one another’s c...