A very informative post. I liked how you weaved your personal story with the general state of Belgian politics and history. Unlike your parents, I am not sure Belgians (on both side of the linguistic divide) have a constitutional separation/divorce system available to them.

I'd like to share the post below as it also touches on the language issue in Belgium.

https://medium.com/babel/writing-as-a-third-language-7e18b5f4473d