Merrill Markoe Quotes

My father was a food lover and a deadbeat dad, and maybe a connection between good food and bad dads was forged early, in the deepest folds of my subconscious, where we make so many decisions about our parents.

My dad was a terrible father. Dreadful. But he had a very difficult childhood. He was fostered - he never knew who his father was. So he had a very different attitude to family and kids. I don't have any issues. I'm not suffering some secret angst.

Some girls go for bad boys because they like the challenge of changing them - which is usually unrealistic.

I've got a lot of issues. I've got a whole lot of daddy issues.

I seem to have fallen for women with missing parents. Goodness knows what it signifies.

You know, when you have a father who's pretty well known but you don't see him, the last thing you want to do is start talking about him all the time to people.

My father was often angry when I was most like him.

All the men I fall for seem to have a commitment problem.

I'm working on my relationship with my mother and father, but my upbringing has been very destructive.

Now when I was a teenager, I was angsty as any teenager was, but after 17 years of having a mother who was in and out of my life like a yo-yo and a father who was faceless, I was angry.

I took the fear of marriage from my parents' relationship, because I didn't want to end up in a relationship like that, whereas my brothers and sisters learnt a lesson from it and made sure they didn't carry it on into their own marriages.

I never had a real conversation with my father.

A lot of times, we get into relationships, and we go in, and we take our old ways. If we take that old baggage into something new, it will never work.

My parents were complicated people. They had a complicated relationship. My home was very, very complicated.

Some of the most disturbing, sick relationships I've witnessed are between long-time friends, and especially mothers and daughters.

My friends were raised by their maids. They didn't see their fathers, who used to travel for work, and there were facades of family vacations. I have grown up to be completely intolerant of fake relationships. That's because of how my parents were.

I built up so much hatred for my parents, like so much anger for the life they had given me.

'Sticky' is about reaching a point in a relationship where you both realize you guys shouldn't be dating, but you're doing it anyway just because you like to have that sense of just being able to be honest with the person and comfortable with the person. You kind of ignore all of the signs and red flags because you really want to like the person.

I've never really turned to my dad for anything, I think out of fear of the label of nepotism.

I didn't really have the most healthy of upbringings.

I've always wanted to be what my father never was to me.

I love my son, but I was never there for him, so I understand why he hates me.

I was told by the world for a long time that I was angry, or that I was sad.

In every team there are those who are discontented.

We all have baggage from our upbringing! That's life!