Jaime Pressly Quotes

I get sick of that old rationalization, "We're staying together because of the children." Kids couldn't be more miserable living with parents who can't stand each other. They're far better off if there's an honest, clean divorce.

Some situations are so hopeless when you look at them from the outside you say, Why are they still married?

Divorce is not the end of the world. It's worse to stay in an unhealthy marriage. That's a worse example for the children.

As many conventionally unhappy parents did in the 1950s, my parents stayed together for the sake of the children—they divorced after my youngest brother left home for college. I only wish they had known that modeling their dysfunctional relationship was far more damaging to their children than their separation would have been.

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

People shouldn't stay married because of the kids. That's torture for everyone.

I suffered, I really suffered, with all three of my husbands. And I tried damn hard with all three, starting each marriage certain that it was going to last until the end of my life. Yet none of them lasted more than a year or two.

As a parent, I can empathize with how difficult raising children can be. There are challenges, especially within the framework of divorce, when parental guilt can sometimes blur what should be the best decision.

My parents were divorced and I would spend weekends with my father.

I think as a child you know when it's time for your parents to split. You realise they love each other, but they're not in love with each other. And I think as a child it's much better for your parents to split than for them to stay and have dysfunction within the family.

I was so tiny when my parents split up that I can't remember them ever being together. That was never an issue, as I guess I never went through the trauma of them splitting up.

I think the key for a child to do well in a divorce is, very simply, you have to be honest with them.

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.

Marriage is a kind of prison for anyone who's miserable in it - men and women alike - and anyone who's suffered through difficult periods in marriage dreams of escape from it.

When you're unhappy in your marriage, your children are the ones who suffer.

Like all kids with divorced parents, I have an abundance of holidays.

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.

When your parents divorce, it makes you grow up fast. I'd urge parents to strongly consider working things out. I'd work things out and I'd definitely stay put.

The Amateur Marriage grew out of the reflection that of all the opportunities to show differences in character, surely an unhappy marriage must be the richest.

Americans, indeed, often seem to be so overwhelmed by their children that they'll do anything for them except stay married to the co-producer.

I've met men who have been married 19, 20 years, and all of a sudden the wife decides one day she needs to find herself.

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

My mum and dad got divorced when I was nine and my brother was seven, and all they strived to do was to make sure we weren't affected.

Nick spent his first years on walks in his stroller and Snugli, playing in Berkeley parks and baby gyms and visiting zoos and aquariums. His mother and I divorced when he was 4. No child benefits from the bitterness and savagery of a divorce like ours.

I may or may not have disappointed Malaika as a boyfriend and a husband, but not as the father of her child.