Dominique Moceanu Quotes

I grew up in a house of no love or emotion - it kind of sticks with you.

I had a very angry father and was disconnected from my family.

I didn't come from a background where I saw a lot of loving couples. All my aunts and uncles were either split up or fighting all the time. The only healthy relationships I saw were on TV.

I can understand a family that's imploding. I have experience of that in my own life.

I grew up in a house that had a whole lot of trouble. As much trouble as you could imagine.

My father was a very unhappy person, very sarcastic, and my mother was very nervous and worried about what people thought. They weren't monsters, but it wasn't a good childhood.

My father was absolutely no good.

The real demon in my life is my father.

My father was a mean, controlling and manipulative person for most of his life. He was unpredictable and unstable. As a result, the atmosphere of our home was super-charged with fear because you never knew if what you did would make him mad or not.

I had a very difficult relationship with my father, which ended up okay, but there were many difficult years.

I can't have my family in my life because they are abusive, and I don't have control over that. There is an abusive culture in my family, and I have to turn away from it.

My mother found herself in a triangular situation of my father and his legitimate wife. I experienced the emotional trauma of that triangle in my cradle.

My family's messed up, for real.

Growing up, I didn't have great family dinners. We sat down every night, and my mother cooked food, but it was always about who was going to leave the table crying first.

Any kid who grew up with an alcoholic parent will tell you how nauseating it feels never to know what it will be like when you come home.

My mother used to go out on her own, and I used to have to keep a look out for my stepfather coming home.

I like my parents but they are just not good parents. They are nice enough people. I'm not interested in hurting their feelings.

I grew up in a family of secrets; there was a lot of pathology in the family.

Most marriages are a mess, and the children get caught between two bitter, antagonistic parents. My parents stayed married for 27 unhappy years, till their kids were grown, and this was a catastrophe for us.

I don't know that anyone comes from a truly functional family.

Talk about your negative experiences with the father, with your girlfriends. Not with your children. And bite your tongue when it comes to diminishing, denying, dismissing, name-calling.

I grew up in a dysfunctional family.

My mom was a ventriloquist and she always was throwing her voice. For ten years I thought the dog was telling me to kill my father.

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

My dad was depressed a lot of the time, and there were a lot of things in his life that he never resolved.