Class de 2 Banme ni Kawaii Onna no Ko to Tomodachi ni Natta - Ch. 28.2 - A Family Gathering

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At first I thought that this guy is overreacting, I wanted to leave a comment about it on a thread a few chapters ago... but then I took about a day to think about it, my parents also got separated when I was in middle school so I thought the MC and I have some kind of the same background but it was very strange why I can't relate to him getting jealous of other who has a complete family and wanting to reunite his family back... And then it hit me... I grew up with not having my family whole... there was only like 6 years of my life where I have a mom and a dad together in one house and that 6 years was like a blur in my memory... from the day that I was born till I turned 6 years old... soon after my mom went abroad for work and my dad was almost never at home because of work... I guess growing up like that, I started to unconsciously think that "that" is what is normal, having relatives take care of you instead is the norm, even though I know of course that having a whole family is what actually is normal but what became normal to me is what I grew up with... I got used to having no mom and dad around, but I never got jealous with other kids that have their parents with them... and it also doesn't help that a few of my cousins are in the same situation that I was in, that made it seem like it is normal that way...

after that, all I could just say is, "wow that's f'ed up"... so I started to read the succeeding chapters until to this point with an open mind... the reason why I can't relate to what the MC was feeling is because, the MC got a taste of what it's like to have a family and he wants that back... but for me, I never experienced it and I never knew what it is like to have a family...