Darryl Glenn Quotes

The word 'divorce' wasn't foreign to me. As a child of the 1970s, I grew up as part of a generation of kids whose parents got divorced, and it wasn't seen as this terrible thing. Maybe that's why I believed what my father told me and Reina that day: that everything would be okay. But it wasn't.

I grew up in a little bit of a broken home.

I grew up in a broken home. My dad was out of the home when I was five years old. I never knew him very well.

My parents divorced, and I didn't have much of a daddy growing up.

I came from a broken family.

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

My parents separated when I was younger.

What must it be like for a little boy to read that daddy never loved mummy?

My parents' marriage was already shaky when I came along. They split up when I was five, and I didn't see Dad all that often after that - four or five times a year.

Growing up, I did not have many friends with parents who were together.

When I was a little girl, my family was extremely close, loving and really happy, and then overnight, things just became a nightmare, and instead of them becoming a nightmare and getting better, they became a nightmare and just kept getting worse.

My parents were divorced when I was 2, so I don't remember much about them being together.

I don't want to get too detailed and personal, but my parents got divorced when I was about nine. A lot of that had to do with my dad being on the road and that disconnect.

For the first five years of my life, things felt pretty good. A lot went wrong after that, family-wise.

My parents separated when I was eight. I grew up with my mom alone.

I remember the bad times as a succession of painful emotional snapshots: Me walking into the library at 24 Sussex, seeing my mother in tears, and hearing her talk about leaving while my father stood facing her, stern and ashen.

My mom and dad got divorced when I was very young, and growing up in a family where the head of the household wasn't a man made a big difference.

I grew up in a dysfunctional family.

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

My father and my mother separated when I was two.

And my parents' separation was tricky. But my mum had always been really honest with me, and treated me like an adult even when I was really young, so I knew they hadn't been getting on.

My dad was an alcoholic, growing up, so I knew how scary that was from a child's perspective - the volatility.

I can distinctly remember being the only boy in my class whose parents had separated.

I had a very rocky, difficult, emotional childhood with my parents.

My parents got divorced when I was nine months old, and my father would only pop in and see me once a year, if that. I don't have much contact with him.