To what extent do you think a parents relationship with impact on their children's

To what extent do you think the relationship between two parents will affect the the relationship that their children have with their partners. For example if the children grew up in a household where both parents were constantly fighting (not physical abuse but more just bickering/ verbal abuse) or where one parent had cheated on the other but they are still together or where the parents were actually divorced etc do you think the child would be more likely to have a relationship like that compared to children that had grown up with the parents being pretty much in loving relationship with maybe the occasional argument. Ages ago I heard someone on the TV giving a speech about how their parents stayed together but they were just constantly arguing all the time(pretty sure there was no physical abuse involved though) and how he never once saw them being happy together or loving towards each other. He then went on to say that because of this, he sort of had to learn more about himself and how to love (I can't remember exactly) before he could enter a deep relationship with someone. He sort of said something along the lines of 'How do you think I would have been able to establish such a loving relationship with my wife whom I've been with for ...years if I didn't first address these issues and learn more about myself and relationships first. If he didn't do that then do you think he would have been more likely to have a similar relationship with his wife that his parents had? I'm not sure if there is something we could learn from him or if we would just be wasting our time by doing all that e.g. someone who grew up in an environment with parents that were deeply in love could still go on to have a rubbish relationship with their husband/wife which could even end in divorce

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