Relational Transgression: Growing Up In A Perfect Family
Relational Transgression occurs when a person abuses the relationships boundaries in which they both defined. Often times, it was nearly impossible to avoid certain individuals no matter how hard we try.
I do not consider myself to be brought up in a perfect family. Yes we lived in a seven-bedroom house with new cars in our driveway, the newest clothes and shoes for Christmas, and the latest technology, but if anything, my family was far from perfect. I remember this day very vividly; I was about twelve years old in the sixth grade at the time. I walk in the house and as I am approaching the stairway I see bags of clothes sitting in front of the stairway. Before I could even process what’s going on my mother raises her head with the most …show more content…
“Are we actually going to stay with a family member?” “What about all of my friends?” These are questions that constantly ran through my head. Subsequently, it all started to make sense to me now. A few weeks prior my father sat my sister and I down and told us my mother was divorcing him. I thought nothing of the situation because in all honestly, I had wanted my parents to get divorced for as long as I could remember. I was far from oblivious to the issues that were going on between them both. My father was an alcoholic. He consumed alcohol excessively to the point where DUI’s and numerous arrests were the outcome of it. Then it really clicked in my brain; we are leaving for our own safety. I started to piece things together. The past few weeks, my mother had been on the phone a lot more than she usually was. On numerous occasions, she would go talk on the phone in the second garage that was on the other side of the house. When I would walk in to get her attention I would hear the words “domestic violence.” Not many twelve year olds are familiar with the definition of domestic violence but in a few short days I definitely was. We ended up leaving everything behind to go into safety. I could not communicate with anyone because if my father found out where we
I do not consider myself to be brought up in a perfect family. Yes we lived in a seven-bedroom house with new cars in our driveway, the newest clothes and shoes for Christmas, and the latest technology, but if anything, my family was far from perfect. I remember this day very vividly; I was about twelve years old in the sixth grade at the time. I walk in the house and as I am approaching the stairway I see bags of clothes sitting in front of the stairway. Before I could even process what’s going on my mother raises her head with the most …show more content…
“Are we actually going to stay with a family member?” “What about all of my friends?” These are questions that constantly ran through my head. Subsequently, it all started to make sense to me now. A few weeks prior my father sat my sister and I down and told us my mother was divorcing him. I thought nothing of the situation because in all honestly, I had wanted my parents to get divorced for as long as I could remember. I was far from oblivious to the issues that were going on between them both. My father was an alcoholic. He consumed alcohol excessively to the point where DUI’s and numerous arrests were the outcome of it. Then it really clicked in my brain; we are leaving for our own safety. I started to piece things together. The past few weeks, my mother had been on the phone a lot more than she usually was. On numerous occasions, she would go talk on the phone in the second garage that was on the other side of the house. When I would walk in to get her attention I would hear the words “domestic violence.” Not many twelve year olds are familiar with the definition of domestic violence but in a few short days I definitely was. We ended up leaving everything behind to go into safety. I could not communicate with anyone because if my father found out where we