This one made me feel grimey, I hope you enjoy.
Like most marriages, the one between my parents started when they were too young and ended with an ugly divorce. I was just a boy, maybe ten years old at that time, so naturally I became used as a bargaining chip throughout the whole separation process. When the dust settled, my mother was awarded the house and custody of me and I’d see my father on weekends at the apartment he was renting at the other end of town. For a few years things went along just fine like this, or as fine as it could be. They both started dating other people, but my father couldn’t find a woman to stick around. Some women lasted for a year or so, but never much longer than that. My father’s living situation would change with almost every woman he got serious with. Sometimes they would move in with him, but usually he’d go to live with them.
It never seemed like it at the time, but as I got older I realized that he was just barely getting by. I found out that he had cheated and was paying a lot in child support, which left him struggling financially, but he always made it work, somehow.