My mom gets really stressed easily; in the morning, within five minutes of her waking up, she'll start ranting about how messy the house is and how my dad never does anything to help. My dad just ignores her and gets ready for work, goes on the computer, and leaves when it's time for him to go.
The on weekends, my mom will go on a cleaning rampage, and most weekends (and increasingly more often, weekdays), she'll get drunk and pick a fight with my dad. Sometimes she gets kind of violent too...apparently, while I was at school on friday, my dad was home from work and my mom had the day off, so they got in a fight and she threw some dishes at him. Then I walked in the door as she finished cleaning everything up, and my dad started yelling about how the remote from the TV was gone, and it was my mom's fault...and for the next hour and a half, they insulted each other and my mom kept threatening divorce, and saying my dad needs to get out of the house because he never help with anything and is annoying. my dad replied that he was going to do everything he could to annoy her so that she'd leave, not him...
anyway, they've been arguing a lot more often than they have years past, and their arguments are getting longer and starting earlier in the day. even though nobody says it's my fault, I know it is. I'm going to college in a year, and it's expensive, and my family has no money whatsoever. we can't really pay the bills, let alone college...but I have to go to college. I can't get a job, no one will hire me. I don't contribute to the household or anything, all I can do is clean, which I do as best as I can, but it never makes my mom happy. My mom mutters about getting a divorce whenever she's alone. I know they're going to get one when my brother and I move out. How do I cope with the arguing and almost imminent divorce? It makes me so sad and angry, and I'm afraid of marriage now...
The on weekends, my mom will go on a cleaning rampage, and most weekends (and increasingly more often, weekdays), she'll get drunk and pick a fight with my dad. Sometimes she gets kind of violent too...apparently, while I was at school on friday, my dad was home from work and my mom had the day off, so they got in a fight and she threw some dishes at him. Then I walked in the door as she finished cleaning everything up, and my dad started yelling about how the remote from the TV was gone, and it was my mom's fault...and for the next hour and a half, they insulted each other and my mom kept threatening divorce, and saying my dad needs to get out of the house because he never help with anything and is annoying. my dad replied that he was going to do everything he could to annoy her so that she'd leave, not him...
anyway, they've been arguing a lot more often than they have years past, and their arguments are getting longer and starting earlier in the day. even though nobody says it's my fault, I know it is. I'm going to college in a year, and it's expensive, and my family has no money whatsoever. we can't really pay the bills, let alone college...but I have to go to college. I can't get a job, no one will hire me. I don't contribute to the household or anything, all I can do is clean, which I do as best as I can, but it never makes my mom happy. My mom mutters about getting a divorce whenever she's alone. I know they're going to get one when my brother and I move out. How do I cope with the arguing and almost imminent divorce? It makes me so sad and angry, and I'm afraid of marriage now...