Dysfunctional Relationship Quotes

My father and mother were not that compatible. I don't think they had a good wedding night, and I was the product of that. We weren't close.

Father' is such an arbitary word. Douche bag, on the other hand.

The trouble is that, while my parents were great when they were apart, they were terrible together.

'Satya' and 'Company' are two very dark and brooding relationship films; there was no hero.

When people divorce, it's always such a tragedy. At the same time, if people stay together it can be even worse.

Any affair, by its very nature, is quite dysfunctional.

There's some kind of dark symbiosis between lunatics and the Postal Service.

You've managed-- in our short three years together-- to kill not only my god, but my father, my brother, and my fiance. That's kind of like a homicidal hat trick. It's a strange foundation for a relationship, wouldn't you say?

I was, in the 1960s, in a marriage. To use the word 'bad' would be perhaps the understatement of the year. It was dreadful.

It's good to learn early that every show is a family - -complete with dysfunctional relationships, tough love, and plenty of occasion for forgiveness.

In the fullness of time, every President ends up hating his Vice President.

Blaming mother is just a negative way of clinging to her still.

Why do you give me cars?" "It's fun," Ranger said."And it keeps you safe. Do you want to know why keeping you safe is important to me?" "You love me?" "Yes." A sigh inadvertently escaped. "We're really screwed up, aren't we?" "In a very large way," Ranger said.

As many conventionally unhappy parents did in the 1950s, my parents stayed together for the sake of the children—they divorced after my youngest brother left home for college. I only wish they had known that modeling their dysfunctional relationship was far more damaging to their children than their separation would have been.

The thing about addiction is you think you're getting off on people, and you're not, and the only person you're fooling is yourself.

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.

I don't have any gnawing guilt over contributing to any unhappiness suffered by my husbands. They were as much to blame as I was.

I had a lousy marriage and I drank too much.

My father is incapable of showing much affection, or even of carrying on a conversation. I didn't want to have a relationship with him just because he's my blood relative. It would bore me.

What if we just acknowledged that we have a bad relationship, and we stuck it out, anyway? What if we admitted that we make each other nuts, we fight constantly and hardly ever have sex, but we can't live without each other, so we deal with it? And then we could spend our lives together - in misery, but happy to not be apart.

To think that Woody was in any way a father or stepfather to me is laughable.

Even my parents sort of went along with the assumption that they were a good couple, but they probably weren't a very good couple.

I cannot, will never, understand these couples who hate each other, who conduct open warfare in front of their children - the kind of people who have to drop the kids off at the end of the driveway in case they lay eyes on one another. At the very least, civility must reign.

Some situations are so hopeless when you look at them from the outside you say, Why are they still married?

I do think that it's a dysfunctional relationship between columnists and commentators, because they both seem to hate each other, like a terrible marriage.