When I was nine my mom moved to Florida with me, while my dad stayed in North Carolina. It wasn't anything bad, there was no fighting, but we needed the house and we needed to move.

When I was old enough, having my own relationship problems my mom told me what happened. She wanted a change in my dad and while they weren't living together and the six months apart was their period to see if that was possible.

She explained this to me because she told me change doesn't just happen over night. You can't also expect someone to just bend to your wants and wishes, but you can say you'd like to see them work toward it. I guess that's something I've still taken with me as an adult.

My parents have always been an amazing couple, they've never fought in front of me, not to say they've never fought but I've never had to see it. They've always shown me what it takes to keep one and keep it going good. I guess that's something I idolize in them more than anything, they may not be rich or have the ideal life but they have each other and that's what it's been for 23 years. I may be in the mix, but it's been the two of them versus the world for as long as I can remember.

I know a lot of people don't have that. They haven't seen it and they don't have the faith it works. But I do and I've seen it and I wish I could just share with them a glimpse of the hope I have for things like that.