Adrianne Lenker Quotes

My parents separated when I was younger.

I was six when my parents divorced, and that was tough for me.

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.

My parents split when I was 13. For a youngster, it's quite devastating. One minute you're all happy families, then everything changes.

I had a somewhat frenetic childhood because my mum and dad split up when I was five, and then my mum remarried.

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.

My mother and father split up when I was three and my brother was still in the womb.

I was barely 17 when our father decided to part ways with my mother.

My family - my mother and father had gone through such a hard time that by the time I graduated from sixth grade, they were separated.

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.

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 mother left my father in their late 60s.

My family went through divorces and remarriages and the later, blended home - and then watched that home explode, too.

I thought at the time of my parents' divorce that I was upset by deeper, more profound things and I was just taking it out on the joint custody agreement. But that disruption was bad enough. That was a huge deal for a teenager.

When my dad divorced my mom it was kind of like him leaving me also.

There's something about a divorce in that even if your parents still love you, the fact that they can't live with each other makes you feel there's something wrong with you.

My parents' marriage was very rocky. They were always arguing. When they split up when I was in my 20s, my brother and I were both delighted because we knew they weren't good for each other.

My brother and I were separated when I was a child; we went with different parents.

I had a really good childhood up until I was nine, then a classic case of divorce really affected me.

There were definitely curveballs in my growing up, from a family aspect. My parents got divorced when I was in second grade. I moved around a lot. Actually, I went to about four different schools when I was in fourth grade.

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 had a really good childhood up until I was nine years old. Then a classic case of divorce really affected me and I moved back and forth between relatives all the time. And I just became extremely depressed and withdrawn.

Sometimes it makes me sad that I didn't get to have one family for my entire life.

Parents don't understand kids and kids don't understand parents. My parents were divorced when I was really young and I went to live with my dad.