Post by liverandonions on Mar 2, 2015 19:53:53 GMT -5
I was mostly raised by both parents-they split when I was 16 and I lived with my mom and saw my dad all the time. But there wasn't a lot of "raising" going on by that point.
I was in kindergarten when my dad died. My mom left a couple months after that. I was raised my my grandparents, and my brother and sister were raised by someone else.
I was raised by my mom and her partner for about 12 years, then they broke up and my mom became addicted to drugs, so it was a combination of my mom, her xgf and my grandparents.
I was adopted at birth. My adoptive parents are my parents; I've only ever used the term 'adoptive' when trying to explain on here. They were told they couldn't have children, adopted me, then got pregnant with each of my sisters.
I was raised by my biological parents. They separated when I was around 15 and were legally divorced when i was 20. My dad remarried about 4 years ago, my mom never did.
My mom and my step dad, who have been together since I was two, so I'd probably click "bio parents" since that's more similar to my experience than a step parent coming in later.
We lived with my grandma and my great aunt and uncle for a few years when I was kindergarten through 2nd grade, so they played a huge role.
My bio parents divorced when I was 5. I lived with my dad and spent a night or two a week with my mom until I was about 10 and then stopped that (my decision). She would have loved for me to live her and did her best to be a 50/50 parent but I didn't allow it, so I was basically raised by my dad. Now that I'm a mom though, I'm much closer to her. I actually feel bad how I treated her
Post by balletofangels on Mar 2, 2015 21:08:56 GMT -5
Raised by my bio parents who are still married, but my dad was previously married and that marriage spawned my sister. My dad had primary custody of her so my brother and I never have referred to her as our "half" sister. She saw her mom every other holiday and two weeks in the summer.
Technically bio parents who are still married. But my dad has worked at a job since I was 2 that he only comes home on weekends. So since I was 2 I've only seen him on weekends. When I was a teen I could go months without seeing him because I'd be working or out and he took up racing and would be gone. Even now I can go months at a time without seeing him. We are not close at all. So it was more like being raised by a single mom.