We know that the most important influence on a child is the early relationship with the mother.

"Then he did talk about this earlier relationship with the girl in Ireland?"

When the two met again in January 1987, their earlier relationships had ended.

Jane had been hurt a lot in her early relationships.

He wrote about their early relationship in several of his short stories.

Who, I thought, wants to know about the other's earlier relationships, if he or she is not the fulfillment of their promise?

Despite the intensity of these early relationships, they seldom last.

It is a sign that the earlier relationship has gone well, but is no longer needed or wanted.

One early relationship was so destructive that her mother stepped in to end it.

He also had a son, Franklin, 17, from an earlier relationship.