Mike McGavick Quotes

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 hard and painful and complicated, and something you have to grow through.

If you go from a structure where you have the support and that partner and that construction of a family and that's broken apart, I think that's probably a lot harder than always being a single mom and having the father being a support in another area.

Anyone who's been through divorce will know that every day is really hard.

Often, parents feel overwhelmed. Many must accomplish the whole job single-handedly while bearing all of the emotional pain of divorce.

If you're in a family unit... and the boys are having a particularly hard time, the impact on the entire family is troublesome.

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

Initiating and going through a divorce with four kids can be a brutal experience, but also a tempering one. It gave me perspective and insight to be able to find the love of my life.

It's not easy to walk out on a marriage and two young kids, and it's the most difficult thing I've ever had to do.

There's a really unique relationship between a single parent and their child. Marriages so easily break up. There's kind of this temporary deal about marriages. That's one of the things that makes it stressful, and that's something that's nonexistent in a parent-child relationship.

My kids have a great dad. I don't really want them to have a stepfather, and I don't think they do, either.

Single parenting is sometimes just a case of sitting around by yourself in mild despair, not knowing what to do.

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?

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.

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

I have a friend that has five kids and she went through a trial separation with her husband, and she didn't have time to be upset. Every now and then, she'd call me on the cell phone and just cry.

Divorce is fairly common these days, and I think many times people disregard the emotional impact that divorce has on a couple and a family, because it happens so frequently.

My mother and my father divorced during the time that my father was getting his Ph.D. at Tulane.

Divorce is challenging. When your kids go through things, it's tough. But it's no different for any other woman. And I have great compassion for single moms. It's lousy out there for them. I had the ability to work. I have always been the provider anyway, but there are a lot of women who can't support themselves.

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

From a child's point of view, there is rarely a great time for parents to separate, even if there has been a lot of commotion and fighting.

I've seen people go through divorces and stuff, crossroads that don't end well. Often.

It's not that, you know, when a relationship doesn't work and there are issues, you have to somehow work it out if there are children involved.

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.

It's a difficult journey when you're going through a divorce, is it not, for anyone?