My mother and father had many long talks and, at first, tried to work things out. It was finally decided that saving the happiness of my mother's future would mean sacrificing the marriage. My father tried desperately to keep my mother from leaving. Perhaps this is why the divorce didn't end sooner. My mother wasn't giving up easily though either. She didn't want to ruin the marriage that had lasted for so long and, more importantly, she didn't want to endanger the childhood my brother and I had already established. It took about a month for them to finally decide to call it quits. After the final decision was reached there was no turning back. So the papers were signed and the divorce was complete.

It was decided that Tim would spend the remainder of the current school year and the rest of the summer with his father. A few weeks past and, to our delight, we were anxious to find out that Tim was doing much better in school and showing more respect towards other people. You could sense the change in his attitude toward the likes of my mother and I. You could tell that he missed us and that he was, in most ways, sorry for the hell he put my mother through. After receiving the discipline he so desperately needed and deserved it was decided that it would now be ok if he moved back in with us.

Tim is doing much better now. He hardly ever disrespects his mother and speaks to people with more respect than we could ever have imagined or hoped for. He's doing much better in school now and will hopefully continue pointed it the right direction. We have not, however, forgot of the positive influences he received from his father. His father gave him the male influence and guidance he needed and couldn't receive from his mother. Unfortunately I was, at the time, much to young to know how to guide a child let alone enforce the rules that must be held while raising a child. Because of my fathers great succes

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