Antoni Porowski Quotes

There was a great strain in our family because my father didn't want anything to do with me. He was happy to see my brother and sister, but not me. I don't know why. Maybe it was shame. I don't know. But he never wanted anything to do with me. That rejection was terribly hurtful and it went on for years.

I had a very, very difficult relationship with my mother, who was supremely self-centred. She was hilariously self-centred. She did not really take interest in anything that didn't immediately affect her.

The real demon in my life is my father.

What distinguished my life from my brother's is that my mother didn't like me. When I became a woman, I seemed to repel her.

If your parents ignored you, or if they are just not emotionally available, or if they yell a lot, that is a type of trauma.

My father kicked me out of the house by the time I was 16.

My stepfather was fond of letting me know, quote, 'I ain't your... damn daddy.' That was something that was painful, to put it mildly.

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

You know . . . a lot of kids at school hate their parents. Some of them got hit. And some of them got caught in the middle of wrong lives. Some of them were trophies for their parents to show the neighbors like ribbons or gold stars. And some of them just wanted to drink in peace.

I have sister issues and parent issues and all sorts of things.

If dysfunction means that a family doesn't work, then every family ambles into some arena in which that happens, where relationships get strained or even break down entirely. We fail each other or disappoint each other. That goes for parents, siblings, kids, marriage partners - the whole enchilada.

We come from fallible parents who were kids once, who decided to have kids and who had to learn how to be parents. Faults are made and damage is done, whether it's conscious or not. Everyone's got their own 'stuff,' their own issues, and their own anger at Mom and Dad. That is what family is. Family is almost naturally dysfunctional.

Once upon a time, if you wanted to talk about the notion of child abandonment, of a mother not being a good mother, that's built into the mother who sends the babes into the woods, and they use the bits of bread or stones to come home again.

My dad used to ignore me when I was a kid. He couldn't stand my voice, so he just used to ignore me, and then he'd impersonate me.

I've been estranged from my father since I was eight.

It hurts real bad to have that protection barrier between parent and child.

I grew up in a dysfunctional family.

I hated my father long before I knew there was a word for hate.

The more love I craved, the more distant and abusive he grew. The role I longed to play was never written into Ryan's script: daughter.

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

My father had kicked me out of his house at the height of an argument over an opinion difference. He had become so enraged. He told me never to come back, and that was all the severance it took.

Families, generally, suck. And I say that as someone who, like my husband, had parents who proved the proverbial exception to the rule.

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

The kids get cheated out of a lot of times with their dad. They were good about it.

Any father whose son raises his hand against him is guilty of having produced a son who raised his hand against him.