Does a Broken Home Affect Future Romances?

Hmmm... I'm pretty sure it would affect a person's attitude towards love but we can never tell if this would be positive or negative. There are a lot of people who make the same mistakes as their parents because it's their way of "getting even". Sometimes it's not even a cognizant thing. There are people who say "I'm not going to be like my parents" but end up being the same way because they take on the same responses and are unaware that they have become the very person they never wanted to be. It's a psychological thing that some are not aware of... But then, there are a majority who try harder to make their futures better because of their broken past and this is what I want to see in people. Helping them take on problems positively and overcoming the odds. =)

Maybe that's what's happening to me. My parents used to argued and fight a lot when I was little or as long as I can remember being a little girl. I used to run and hide when the war would break out. I think maybe this could be one reason why I seem to have very short and complicated relationships, but hey I'm not a shrink, it could be a number of reasons why "love" turns around and run the other way when it sees me coming.Sad huh? I do believe that in many cases it does happens.

..for me yes.. but how it affects will depend on how the person view his/her past experiences.. If he/she sees those experiences as lessons to learn from, then it would have a positive effect on them.. however, if the person was already traumatized, it will be very hard for the person to recover from that experience.. they need somebody to help them recover and move forward so that they will not be frightened thinking that same thing will happen with their future family..

Yes I come from a single parent home not a broken home. My parents were divorced. My daddy was good to me my entire life but he cheated on my mother whom i adore several times. He caused her alot of turmoil and pain. She was such a loving woman this affected me and my brother and sister as a child. Now that I've grown up and I'm able to love its been extremely difficult to love my fiance. The problems he caused my mother I find myself questioning my fiance over and over again. Its terrible. I feel like I can never love without a doubt in my mind.