Domestic Stress Quotes

I didn’t mean now,” he protested. “I’m not going to raise the child. I’m having enough trouble with Rachel.

When you've got a teenager and a pre-teen, especially a son and a daughter, and they're going at each other at the table, all you really want is just five minutes of quiet, but sometimes I have a moment during the chaos when I think, 'Yes, this is good.'

There is not much less vexation in the government of a private family than in the managing of an entire state.

I cannot go to sleep with dishes in the sink.

For a period of 17 years - from the age of 9 until I was 25 years old - my mother never spent a day free from domestic difficulties.

I remember one time my cousin telling me - she's got four kids - she would pour the milk down the drain so she could drive to the Dairy Barn just to get out of the house.

Nothing is quite so emotional and passionate as what goes on inside of a family. People are driven to distraction by a father or a mother or a husband. Or a child.

I won't sleep until I have resolved an issue with my husband.

Typically, housewives and working mums hate each other like dogs fighting for a bone.

It wasn't so long ago that I was a working mom myself. And I know that sometimes, much as we all hate to admit it, it's just easier to park the kids in front of the TV for a few hours, so we can pay the bills or do the laundry or just have some peace and quiet for a change.

I will not have my son grow up in a tension-filled home.

Roommate struggles are real.

One situation – maybe one alone – could drive me to murder: family life, togetherness.

To play a cop's wife - there's so much in that world, the wives or partners of anyone who is a first responder - it's not an easy job. It's not an easy way to live, to say goodbye to someone in the morning and not know what's going to happen throughout the day.

I'm living with two guys. I'm living with a slob and a guy who sleeps all day.

Women run the small country called Home, millions of us do it in our spare time, and no one who doesn't run that small country really knows what it feels like in the dead of night when task lists jitter like tickertape through your seething brain.