A Letter to My Divorced Parents.

Dear Mom and Dad-

Writing a letter to the two of you as a couple is really weird. You guys have been divorced since I was very small. By the time I was three, I had been alive longer than your marriage lasted.

First, I would like to thank you for getting a divorce. You are two of the most incompatible people I have ever met. I have trouble even understanding how the two of you could have been friends, let alone how you wound up married to one another. Even without knowing what your marriage was like, I would have assumed the whole thing was a disaster.

I think that, all too often, people do that whole "stay together for the kids" thing and end up miserable for thirty years. Then, the kids are gone but they have been together for so long that they don't know how to live without each other but they also can't really stand each other. I am very glad that somewhere in the midst of the drug and alcohol induced turmoil that was "Anne and Ken," you guys recognized that.

I truly think that I grew up to be an intelligent, kind, caring, decent human being. I do not think that I would have grown up to be a functioning human being if you two had stayed together. I thank you for your divorce for that reason. You are both recovering addicts and I do not think you would each have over a decade of sobriety to brag about if you had stayed married. This is another reason that I am glad you guys are divorced, and have been for over two decades.

You guys were probably the kind of couple that would have ended up on a made for T.V. movie. I am really glad that I did not become a Lifetime character because you felt the need to stay married for me. Can you imagine if the two of you had more children? That would have been an absolute train wreck. Seriously, guys, good on ya for separating. I'm glad that the experience taught you both to choose your mates more carefully. What were you thinking?

Love,
Molly