Isabel Gillies Quotes

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

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 father and my mother separated when I was two.

Divorce is, of course, difficult for a child. I didn't go through it as my parents stayed together, but I have a lot of friends who did.

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.

When I was just four-and-a-half, my parents separated and both my parents remarried.

I was very young when my parents separated, and later, my mother remarried.

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

My mom and dad got divorced when I was very young, and growing up in a family where the head of the household wasn't a man made a big difference.

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

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 grew up in a broken home.

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.

I had never felt so lonely and so sad in my entire life.

During the first 10 years of my life, while my parents were married, I enjoyed a privileged upbringing. After their divorce, my life was difficult.

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 had four children quickly, divorced quickly - when I was two - and my mother remarried quickly. We were suddenly in a different environment with a different father.

I don't have a regular happy family like most people. My parents are separated; my dad married someone else and so did my mom. All my siblings are from my parents' other marriages. So yes, it is complicated, and I don't like talking about it or explaining this to everybody. But all this doesn't stop us from being close to each other.

I grew up in a broken home, working class. My paternal grandmother raised me and my brother; my father was with us, and my mother lived in Jersey.

My parents' divorce made an important change in my life. It affected me.

What must it be like for a little boy to read that daddy never loved mummy?

My parents divorced, and I didn't have much of a daddy growing up.

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.

The day I initiated divorce proceedings against Michael Farmer, I was ready to retire to a desert cave and rethink my life.