Why Should I Find It So Unsettling?

It was no surprise. After all, for the past few years I have watched this marriage crumble before my eyes. No, it's not my marriage, but the marriage of a friend. Still the news that I've been waiting to hear was still somewhat of a shock. I've been living in my house for the past ten years, eight of those years were spent being friends with this family. My daughter met their daughter the first day of kindergarten and they've been friends ever since. What I find unsettling is thinking of what my daughter's friend is going through. The world she's known since she was a year old is never going to be the same. Today the house went on the market, tomorrow one of the dogs is going to live on a farm and next week the mom (my friend) and her daugther (my daughter's friend) is moving to another town. This not only means moving out of your house, but also having to change schools. I just am unsettled by all of this. I too am a product of divorce, but my parents divorced when I was three years old, not thirteen. I think to be a teenager and having your world fall apart before your eyes has got to be quite difficult and if I must say...unsettling.