Priscilla Presley Quotes

I had what you could call a chaotic childhood. My parents divorced when I was 2; I went back and forth between my mom's and dad's houses for years. But, you know, my parents tried to do the right thing. As crazy as everything was, and as much fighting and everything, there was always a feeling of support from them.

Too many couples break up without understanding the consequences for their families.

Just about every therapist or counselor or social worker is practiced in dealing with people going through failing relationships, ending them, and confronting issues of custody and support.

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.

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?

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.

Eddie and I have decided to take some time apart. I want to do what is best for our children.

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.

There are things that are hard about coming from a divorced family, but having two houses is not one of those things.

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.

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 had to learn to respect the relationship my son had with his father outside of the three of us.

The parents' job is to be there for their kids, not the other way round. Troubles between parents need to be talked through with friends and not visited on the children.

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

When my parents separated, I was very grateful.

I think every family is dysfunctional, and some manage to control it better than others.

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.

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

There's nothing like a family crisis, especially a divorce, to force a person to re-evaluate his life.

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.

Me and my dad are kind of distant since my mom and him separated.

That whole business of having two homes, and that divided loyalty bind that kids get into. I mean, my parents were divorced - though I was adult - but I still grappled with being responsible to both of them.

My parents divorced when I was seven. Because divorce is messy, for good or ill, they sent me to boarding school.

You know, that's the only good thing about divorce; you get to sleep with your mother.

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