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Too many couples break up without understanding the consequences for their families.

Families are the deepest, most screwed up relationships that we have.

Family relationships trigger childhood wounds, and those wounds often trump our rational thinking. We can't 'rationally' transcend the kind of primal pain that such relationships can arouse.

A family is very special. So when a family splits up, it's not good, it's never good.

You know, I think anybody who has been in relationships has access to heartbreak - I don't think we have to go far to find it, whether we inflicted the heartbreak or whether we were the recipient of it.

I think heartbreak is something that you learn to live with as opposed to learn to forget.

We tend to think of divorced or complicated families as a modern invention, and that is not at all true. You only have to read the Greek myths to see broken homes, widows, divorce, stepchildren, children trying to get along with new parents.

Breakups are hard for anybody, and no matter how it happens or ends up, they're just hard.

I'm something of a black belt at break-ups. I have had two long-term relationships in my life, both of 10 years, both resulting in children, and both very much over. Things end. It is how you manage them being over that's key.

We all have our family issues from time to time.