Natalie Zea Quotes

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

Just because you've been divorced doesn't mean you're not still a family.

It is a parent's responsibility to preserve the connection with their children, to preserve the relationship, so that the children can let go and become their own selves.

It's important that adults get along with each other for the child's sake, and that is our situation.

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

What's done is done. You've got to move on. I don't want to say anything bad about the mother of my children.

I've been working on my relationship with my parents and my sister over the years. We have become more close. I think having kids makes you want to keep the gang together.

Dad needs to show an incredible amount of respect and humor and friendship toward his mate so the kids understand their parents are sexy, they're fun, they do things together, they're best friends. Kids learn by example. If I respect Mom, they're going to respect Mom.

We're not only cousins, but partners in peace.

To create a nice relationship with an ex, the love has to change form. I think you just have to put your children first.

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

Me and my son's mother, we've been divorced for a while, but we've been really great parents. We're good friends. We're very relaxed when it comes to our son's time with one another. We have an open door.

I've learned to become a progressive man because I have four women in my life. And their mother, who I'm not married to anymore, but who impresses me because of our relationship. Because we have a very deep and friendly relationship that is completely about who we really are now. Before it was husband, wife, mother, father. But now it's about who we are as human beings. Because we didn't give up on each other. And because we didn't hurt each other and blister each other from a divorce. We became tight. Best friends. And more than that even, because now we're best parents.

David and Dad didn't get along too well growing up. I mean we all got along, but it was harder on David, because David wasn't going to be the son that Dad wanted. But now they're like best friends.

All my ex-girlfriends or wives are all kind of great friends and I've never understood somebody who can live with somebody for five or six years and then not like them.

My parents divorced when I was young but I was brought up in two really loving households. I didn't have a contentious relationship with my mom or dad.

I wish I had a great relationship with my mother.

I've always deplored bad heterosexual values that dictate the minute a marriage is over the former partners no longer speak to each other; only straights could be so cruel and inhuman as to reject totally the person with whom they've shared their life for 20 or 30 years.

I'm raising my daughter with her grandparents in the picture, and that feels good.

My ex-husband is very involved in raising our beautiful children. We're very lucky because we both grew up in working families in middle America. We're on the same page that way.

I want my ex-wife and children to be happy.

My son spends as much time with his dad as he does with me.

I'm completely in love with my children, and I participate in their lives on every level.

I think that people should never be ashamed of wanting to move on with their lives and move on from their partners. I have a lot of girlfriends who were married in their early 20s and are now divorced because they basically grew apart - they evolved into another person in their 30s.