Lived Experience: Ashley Flores

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When we moved in with Laura, we finally felt like a family again. Mom seems much happier now but Mom and Laura argue a lot. Sometimes it gets pretty loud and they think we can’t hear them, but we can. 

I have a friend whose parents fight a lot like Mom and Laura, it makes him upset and he has a hard time focusing on school. I sometimes feel the same way. I am nervous to talk to him about it because my Mom and Laura are different, not like his parents or anyone else’s in my class. I can’t talk to my grandmother either because she doesn’t understand Mom and Laura’s relationship. It would just make her angrier at Mom for leaving my Dad and living with Laura. 

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