12 Tweets That Are Way Too Real For Children Of Divorced Parents

'Yeah, but don't you get two Christmases?'

Growing up with divorced parents is a special type of family dynamic - two houses, two families, two Christmas trees.

And although the situation inevitably has ups and downs, there are just so many things that children of non-broken families could never understand.

1. When you have to explain your location every 2 minutes.

2. When you learn to live out of a rucksack.

#growingupwithdivorcedparents practically moving out of your house every weekend

— mateo 🛩 (@mateothesaint) August 2, 2016

3. When you inevitably leave something essential behind at the other house.

#GrowingUpWithDivorcedParents forgetting your charger when switching houses pic.twitter.com/SZSBc89Xb3

— Ronㅤ (@RRON_) July 20, 2015

4. When your post is distributed across the country.

#growingupwithdivorcedparents when mail gets delivered to the wrong parent's house so you gotta so switch it like pic.twitter.com/68epYvT7gS

— Eileen Miller (@Eileen_the_Gr8) July 21, 2016

5. When you have to draw people a family tree.

"They're my step brothers, that's my step sister, that's my half sister, and that's my actual sister"#GrowingUpWithDivorcedParents

— Megan (@may_lheureux) July 31, 2016

6. When people ask who you prefer.

me when people ask if I like my step parent more than my biological parent #growingupwithdivorcedparents pic.twitter.com/Q7gMl0c6VZ

— maddie sed (@maddiehopeeeeee) July 16, 2016

7. When you remember all the times they’ve tried to win your affection with presents and bribes.

#GrowingUpWithDivorcedParents when its your dad's weekend and you get to pick the food pic.twitter.com/Wr5VSowHta

— Haille Fritz (@haillefritz) July 18, 2015

8. When one parent starts talking about the other one.

When they talk about eachother infront of you and your just sitting there like #growingUpWithDivorcedParents pic.twitter.com/wZplnDTpaS

— ash (@ashhley_oox) July 28, 2016

9. When your mum pulls out the ultimate threat.

#GrowingUpWithDivorcedParents "if you hate it here so much why don't you go live with your dad?!" pic.twitter.com/ikYyTo9bsn

— slip flop (@vannahnobre) July 7, 2016

10. When they simply can’t help themselves.

#GrowingUpWithDivorcedParents One of your parents always gotta be salty!😂 pic.twitter.com/Vq1dljhoyq

— Miranda Jade♡ (@_MirandaPandaa) July 5, 2016

11. When other people moan about their unbroken families.

when their parents are happily married and theyre ungreatful asf about it #growingupwithdivorcedparents pic.twitter.com/VG1JZQpIk2

— Kiara Ayres (@kiaraxyres) July 19, 2016

12. And try to tell you that you’ve got it better.

"Yeah but don't you get two Christmases?" #growingupwithdivorcedparents pic.twitter.com/2U4tMe5yfA

— alexis (@alexisgaz) July 10, 2016

And two times the amount of festive arguments.

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