Firstly, seeing my parents fight all the time affected me negatively. In relationships I hold back all my feelings and then one day I would explode and yell at my partner for it. It took a long time to process this and stop yelling when conflict occurs. The other way my parents' relationship affected me as a child in how I viewed a relationship as good or bad. For a long time I didn't really understand what a good relationship was. Therefore, I had conflict issues with the previous relationship which were probably part of the reason for their breakup. If I had better relationship role models, I might have been able to navigate my own better