Judy Gold Quotes

My relationship with my mom is really bad.

There were just a lot of things that happened between my mother and I, and I thought it would be easier if I lived with my grandmother.

My mother and I never got along, not even when I was a child.

My father and I are friends and my mother and I don't speak. It's a bummer. I miss her.

There are members - very, very close and dear members - of my family - I'm talking immediate family - who simply don't speak to me anymore and haven't done so for years. My marriage fell apart.

Mum's serial misbehavior over the years had driven me, despairing, to write her scolding - occasionally scalding letters.

My relationship with my father had been on the proverbial fritz since the time I was fifteen and called the police to report him for child molesting. He had never molested me, but I wanted to have a party that weekend and needed him out of the house.

Any person who says their family is perfectly functional is lying.

If you're lucky like me, your relationship with your brother has resolved itself on the peaceful side of the fence and has stayed there. But if you're someone who's got a family that's all fractured and finding it hard to relate, that's a very sad place to be.

Family quarrels are bitter things. They don't go according to any rules. They're not like aches or wounds, they're more like splits in the skin that won't heal because there's not enough material.

I only saw my father twice a year. If I'd seen him all the time I'd probably have murdered him by now. He was very strict.

I grew up in a family that despised displays of strong emotion, rage in particular. We stewed. We sulked. When arguments did occur, they were full-scale conniptions, and we regarded them as family failings.

I would have gone home to my mother, but I'm not that crazy about my mother.

I think the deepest problem is between my parents and me. I just don't know if it will ever be the same.

Basically, when I hear the words 'family drama,' I run in the opposite direction.

I finally did work out a very good relationship with my father, but it was rough growing up. We had a lot of conflict, and I think it surfaced in many of my works.

I never had a real conversation with my father.

People feel very ashamed to admit that they have in-law problems. They think it's something petty. But it's not petty at all. It hits deep emotions.

My siblings and I kept everything to ourselves, and rather than blowing up in an instant, my family broke apart slowly.

It seemed like my father and I were always fighting. I know a lot of kids go through that with their families, but it was hard for me.

My parents are civil, but they don't keep in touch or hang out or anything. If they're in the same room together and are around each other, they're totally fine and act like adults.

The Trees was four complete nuts. We didn't have a damn thing in common except insanity. So we fought a lot. And we had two brothers - who fought like brothers.

I'd love to have a great relationship with my father. And unfortunately... I don't.

I had a very difficult relationship with my father, which ended up okay, but there were many difficult years.

My parents and I didn't speak for 10 years. It took a long time to rebuild that relationship.