In isolation, that's where the enemy can really, really do a number on us.

So whether you're in a difficult friendship and you're worried the friendship may end,

or if you're in a difficult parent relationship with your parents,

or even if you're the parent and you've got children that you're having a difficult relationship or a marriage or whatever it is, don't stay in isolation.

You know, it's not that you want to tell everybody, but you need to tell somebody and choose

wisely who those somebodies are.

Welcome to Family Life Today, where we want to help you pursue the relationships that matter most.

I'm Dave Wilson.

And I'm Ann Wilson, and you can find us at FamilyLife Today.com.

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So I didn't know it growing up in this home, but watching my dad drink every night, women took me on trips when I was five and six years old with his girlfriends while married to my mom.

I never realized my mom couldn't set a boundary.

She just let it happen.

And she knew about all of it.

He let her know about all of it.

Yeah, I mean, again, looking back, it's like, mom, come on.

And she did not choose to divorce him until my older brother's 10 years older so probably 18 19 years old said to mom you can't let this go on he is destroying our family and again I'm a little

boy at the time thinking it's the worst thing ever happened to my life when my mom and dad got divorced

it was the best thing for me.

I'm not saying divorce is good. I'm not. I'm saying it's a really hard decision she made.

But if I would have stayed being raised by that man, I'm not the man. I'm not sitting here right now.

I'm literally not sitting here right now. My mom saved my life by making a really hard boundary

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