My parents are getting married?

When I was in 8th grade my parents separated.  Their relationship was type that people talked about.  Everyone said your parents are such a great couple they will stay together forever.  They both worked for the same company, which if you think about it, working at the same job isn't such a great idea.  My mom got promoted time and time again and was making more money than my dad.  To me that is not a big deal but to some people (mostly men) it hurts their ego.  They would never admit that it caused problems in their relationship but I know it did.  My parents never fought about anything, sure they had words here and there but I never heard them fight.  To me that isn't normal.  There are times when you just need to explode and get some stuff out of your system and they never did that.  They became distant from each other, my mom would do the dishes and my dad would be playing basketball outside and me and my sister would be playing.  My mom definitely wears the pants in my family and she wasn't happy.  She started a relationship with her cousin and they spent all their time together.  My dad wasn't thrilled about this and after a nightmare trip to Disney they decided to split.  When I told people that they were separating no one believed me, they all laughed like I was joking.  I took my dad leaving very hard.  I felt like he was abandoning us.  My dad lived his bachelor life and my mom started a "serious" friendship with her cousin.  Her cousin also at the time left her husband.  I had suspicions about their relationship for the whole time they were friends, I felt like they were actually in a romantic relationship with each other.  I felt as though my mom was a lesbian.  I know, I know it sounds extreme because people can be friends and be close.  But they slept in the same bed, had private time, wore matching outfits and kissed on lips and held hands in public.  To a girl in highschool this doesn't sit well.  On top of that she moved in with her three young children.  They had a very disfunctional relationship, they fought constantly.  Going to my dads was like an escape from life.  I fought with my mom a lot and started having major problems.  I gained weight, I was suicidal and I ran away once a week.  My world fell apart.  My sister who is 17 now and was around 8 years old at the time developed an eating disorder because of the stress.  She wouldn't eat and having aniexty attacks over the fear of me leaving her.  I blamed myself for years for putting her through everything.  My parents got divorced a year later on my birthday...I found the divorce papers.  They seemed to hate each other, they never talked, and if they did it was about me and Jayme(sister).  We would go to my dads Tuesdays,Thursdays and Sundays.  And when he came to pick us up he would wait outside in the car.  After years of battling with my mom and aunt(cousin but we called her aunt) things finally hit the fan and they were no longer involved with each other.  To be exact my mom hit my aunt and my aunt overdosed on anti-depressants and they got restraining orders.  My mom lost her job and her world fell apart.  She tried to make her life work but it was hard.  She always warned me that she might commit suicide or do something drastic.  I never dealt with that well.  She started inviting my dad in to the house when he would come by to pick us up.  Then they started talking more and more.  She would invite him over for dinner and then they started dating again.  My parents had been divorced for five years.  My parents fell back in love and by this time I was away in college.  I missed the first year of their relationship.  But it has been two years and last January they got engaged.  My dad has always loved my mom and I know that he never stopped loving her.  Even when they were divorced he never talked bad about her.  My mom on the other hand....she talked a lot of sh*t on my dad.  I don't think she loved him as much as my dad loved her.  But now a year later they are getting married.  I know, I know isn't that weird.  After seven years of being divorced my parents are getting married.  Next Friday they are getting married in Florida.  I was thinking about flying out for the ceremony but I am not sure.  I got it approved by my boss but I just am not sold on the idea just yet.  I feel as though it's not everyday that your parents get married.  I just goes to show you that you never really know waht can happen in life.  I told my mom and dad when they first started dating that I didn't care what they did just as long as when I get married that they sit next to each other. 

4:58 PM - Mar. 2, 2006 - post comment