I'm glad my parents got divorced.

Last week I received a handful of pictures of my parents that I’d never seen before. Having only a small amount of photos of them together, this newly acquired array truly makes a difference to me.

I have a lot to say about coming from a background that includes divorced parents. I’ve never even seen my parents in the same room together. I cannot conceptualize the idea of what life might’ve looked like had I grown up with them still married. This is only magnified by the fact that the majority of people I grew up around also come from a divorced family. A two-parent household was a rare sight as a kid, and still is now.