My friend Alex and I, when it comes to family, we both have different experiences. I come from divorced parents, with three siblings (one being a step sister) on my dad’s side and one on my mom’s side, they’re all much younger then me so I took care of them often and still do. When I explain this to him, being an only child, he just doesn’t understand the big responsibility of taking care of a kid. He mainly just says to ignore them, or complains about me getting upset when I argue with them.

He also doesn’t understand living with divorced parents, he lives with both his mom and his dad and he has never been on the point where he had to chose who to live with.

But I’m glad he doesn’t because unlike me, he has that family bond. He is close to his parents, which are lovely by the way. His mom loves me and treats me as her daughter.

I’m kinda jealous of that bond a bit, I talk with my mom often and we get along and over arguments. But she’s more of my best friend than a parent if that makes sense...

I just wish he didn’t threw away that bond, he is constantly on his games or arguing with them. Hold them close before it’s too late