Is it normal to find interacting with divorced parents so tiring.
I love my parents, in fact out of my three siblings I'm the only one who talks too and visits both. But I find it gets stressful to deal with them when they talk about each other. Both are flawed in my opinion but it does weigh on me when they vent about each other.
The did just fully finalize the house stuff last summer so hopefully it does get better but still I find it hard to make sure I don't let anything slip about the other since I find that can cause issues. I did avoid both of them a bit during the roughest years of the divorce.
Is this pretty normal or is it this way because they did have a rough divorce? I recall in middle school I was saying they should just divorce since they argued all the time. They didn't fully divorce until my siblings and I were all out of school like 10 years ago.
Posted Jan 13, 2026, 11:59 PM UTC