Joe Nichols Quotes

I think that every decision I made came from what's best for the kids. If both parents have the children's best interests in mind, it's going to go OK. The second that the parents don't do that, it gets ugly.

I know in my own marriage I stayed in it to provide my son with what I thought was a stable background and to give him what I thought was the family life a child should have with two parents. But that isn't always the best way, and it took me taking my son to therapy after the divorce to really see it.

One of the things I would have loved to have had was a family that worked better together, although I love my mother and father to bits.

Happy families do have certain things in common. Today we finally have the knowledge to know what those things are.

You don't bad-mouth your ex or anything like that. The key is your kid knowing that both parents still love him and are there for him.

I'm in a happy relationship, me and my ex are on really good terms, my kid and I are in a good spot.

I experienced no conflict between my mother and father, which was entirely due to my mother's compassion, intelligence, and maturity.

All I care about are my children and that they are brought up properly and that they don't try to play their dad and mom against each other because they know we don't get along.

I'm not saying that every night of the week, my husband, ex-husband, our children and I all sit around together like one big happy family. But we do see each other frequently, and everyone loves each other, and we are all friends.

I'm married, I have three children, I never hit my wife.

I don't know why my parents split up. I guess they just drifted apart, but I do know they stayed very good friends.

Children are supposed to help hold a marriage together. They do this in a number of ways. For instance, they demand so much attention that a husband and wife, concentrating on their children, fail to notice each other's faults.

I just want to have a great relationship with my child and have a great family dynamic.

Divorce is not easy, but if you genuinely put your kids first, that dictates the civility you should show each other. What example are you otherwise?

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've been working on my relationship with my parents and my sister over the years.

That thing, 'You must stay together for the kids', is out of fashion but is right. It's not arguing parents that children don't like, it is having one parent.

I've never understood why the end of a relationship - especially one involving children - has to immediately signal a descent into hatred and toxicity.

It's not that, you know, when a relationship doesn't work and there are issues, you have to somehow work it out if there are children involved.

My parents divorced when I was very, very young, but they maintained an incredibly amicable relationship. They were great partners, they were great parents, and they were great friends throughout my whole life until I was about 25, at which point they realized that they could relinquish; they could call it and move on.

We were very lucky. My mother and stepmothers were on very, very good terms, and so we, the children, grew up as brothers and sisters.

Even if the two parents have decided they can't stand the sight of each other anymore, they can still back each other up, cover for each other, and fill in the blanks for each other when it comes to their cocreated children, so that neither of them has to feel as if they're having to do it all.

I think that the idea of wanting to fight for your kids, but also knowing that your wife is probably better at it, is something that rings very true for me.

Even when people don't stay married, they can still be a family together. That's been something that's been really good for developing me as a person. It's been a very positive learning experience.

I was never a warring parent who prejudiced the child against the other parent. We are a family wherein everyone cares for each other.