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I had a very distant relationship with my father. It was always just me and my mother. It was a shattering blow when she died. I was 16.

I had a very difficult relationship with my father, which ended up okay, but there were many difficult years.

My mother married three times. My dad is... I don't really have one. I mean, he does exist, but I have zero relationship with him.

Some people found it difficult to understand my relationship with my father, but that may have been because they couldn't get beyond their relationship with their own parents.

I'm estranged from my father and that relationship, as a young man, is incredibly important. It's probably responsible for the man I've become.

I love my dad and we have a very good relationship now.

My relationships with both my mother and father are good. We spent several difficult years hashing over the problems and the past, and worked out a fairly solid middle ground. I wouldn't say my relationship with either of them - they're no longer together - is exactly typical, but that would be difficult after all we went through.

If there's no relationship with a father who's absent, nobody talks about it.

I grew up not seeing my father, and it is a hole in my heart that will never heal.