Richard Armour Quotes

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

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.

Family is a unique gift that needs to be appreciated and treasured, even when they're driving you crazy. As much as they make you mad, interrupt you, annoy you, curse at you, try to control you, these are the people who know you the best and who love you.

Because I see my mum and dad as such amazing friends, I think I'll be a really good dad.

One of the things I would have loved to have had was a family that worked better together, although I love my mother and father to bits.

It's about strengthening the relationship and the bond of parent to child.

I don't speak to my brother every week - doesn't mean I don't love him.

I've had this conversation with friends who have had challenging relationships with one or another parent. The only thing I can say is what I feel: The other person isn't going to change. That is who they are.

My mum and dad aren't together, but she plays a massive part in my life. We have deep conversations: I tell her where I need support, where I feel she's lacking, and I support her with whatever she needs. I understand she won't be here forever, and I want no regrets.

Family is family, but sometimes they do hurt you. They don't mean to, but they can, and sometimes you have to fend for yourself.

I think I realized my parents' relationship was special when I had my first girlfriend, and she came from a broken marriage. I watched how much closeness there was between her and her mom, and also how much bickering.

I was a mama's boy.

Americans always talk about family love being unconditional, and I realized that I didn't feel that way.

There comes a crossroads in every marriage where you grow together or grow apart. I outgrew Len. He wanted me to be in that leather jumpsuit for the rest of my life and do nothing else. He constrained me. It got to a point where the marriage died or I did.

Relationships, like cars, should undergo regular services to make sure they are still roadworthy.

Most marriages don't add two people together. They subtract one from the other.

There's lots of problem solving in any marriage, but when you have this collective goal that is a human being, it's an inspiring rally point.

My brother and I have too good a relationship to spoil it by working together.

My wife Mary and I have been married for forty-seven years and not once have we had an argument serious enough to consider divorce; murder, yes, but divorce, never.

I love my family, they love me. And my little brothers, they're like my sons. I raised them.

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.

The parents' job is to be there for their kids, not the other way round. Troubles between parents need to be talked through with friends and not visited on the children.

When you look at a family, if you have a family that never interacts with each other, never has strong conversation with each other, never has disagreements, nine times out of ten you have a very cold family and they're not going to be, at the end, they're not going to be close.

I just want to have a great relationship with my child and have a great family dynamic.

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.