Dolly, I did both of those things.
I recently reread my journals from being a newlywed.
I
knew I had married an alcoholic.
But he would change once we had a child.
And surely, when that didn't happen, more responsibility would make him more responsible, right?
And surely, the children need their father, right or wrong, right?
There are days when, when I consider the damage I did to my children by not leaving earlier, I lose my will to live. But of course, I have the rest of my life to make it up to them. To build them up and help them grow the wings whose growth was stunted all those years.
