This guy walks up to me and he says he asked this question. He says hey will you commit to staying sober for the next 24 hours

I'm like you don't know what's going on in my life, bro? Like I'm falling apart at the scenes. I'm living on a couch. Like maybe you

didn't hear what I shared. I don't need a day. I need like a lifetime of help. I need

something serious.

Welcome to family life today where we want to help you pursue the relationships that matter most. I'm Shelby Abbott, and your hosts are Dave and Ann Wilson.

You can find us at FamilyLife Today.

This is Family life today. Okay, so we had an interesting drive home, four hours in the car and you decided to make a phone

call out of nowhere. Oh you're talking about my sister. Yeah you're talking about

our visit to see my dad and we started talking about our visit to see my dad and we started talking about your

family are you sharing this today I figured you know this is where we're

headed today so go ahead and tell them I didn't know this was going to happen.

Well, a lot of you know that Dave has a background where both parents were

alcoholics.

There was a lot of abuse, adultery, it was pretty painful.

And as a result of that, out of the four kids that are still alive

none of you really touch base with one another.

We talk about once a year.

Maybe.

Well with one brother once a year the other's not so much.

Maybe once every three.

Okay, you don't have to make it so bad.

Anyway, we were talking about you have no memories of growing up. And so I was like, oh, we should call your

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