The Day My Family Changed Forever

Modern Love

The New York Times

Society & Culture, Nyt, Nytimes, Loss, Redemption, Storytelling, New York Times, Love, Essay

4.3 • 9K Ratings

🗓️ 12 July 2023

⏱️ 23 minutes

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Summary

Imagine you are on vacation. Your favorite shirt is waiting for you in your suitcase. You go to put it on, only to realize it’s not there. You forgot it, and there’s nothing you can do now. That’s an experience that played out time and again for Natalie Muñoz, who split her childhood and adolescence between her parents’ houses after their divorce. Now that she’s turning 18, she tells us how she’s finding a balance that works better for her. Then, Modern Love listeners share stories about the moment they knew their parents were really divorcing and how that feeling has lingered throughout their lives.

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0:00.0	From the New York Times, I'm Anna Martin.
0:03.0	Love now and...
0:06.0	Did you fall in love?
0:07.0	I just thought I love love.
0:08.0	I was stronger than anything.
0:10.0	I was super loveful love.
0:11.0	And I love you more than anything.
0:14.0	I just love it.
0:15.0	Love.
0:17.0	Today I'm modern love.
0:19.0	We ended up sitting on a bench outside the bakery
0:22.0	and that's where he told me.
0:24.0	I never went back to that bakery.
0:26.0	They also had bad servers,
0:28.0	but it was mostly the divorced thing.
0:29.0	I would say.
0:30.0	Stories about divorce.
0:32.0	When my dad started sleeping in the very same.
0:35.0	I didn't think I'm watching it at this time.
0:37.0	From the people who had no say in it.
0:39.0	I was seven when I realized that my parents were divorced.
0:44.0	I knew that we would never be a family again.
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