The Truth That Could Have Saved Me

Two people talking over coffee at a wooden kitchen table

What’s one thing you know now that would have saved your younger self a lot of pain?

What is one thing you know now that would have saved me a lot of pain when I was younger?

I wish I’d known about the alcoholism in my family — what to watch for, what to guard my heart against. Instead, I learned the hard way, after marrying someone who drank too much and hurt me when he did. Only then did I discover the truth from my mother: it ran in our family. That knowledge might have spared me years of heartache and confusion.

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