One day in Dallas I ran into my ex three times. The ex that I was running into was Jack Daniels on a billboard and it's because specifically they have created this rye whiskey and so I'm looking at it and I'm like oh man I quit

drinking too soon I never got to have that I wonder what that's like. Welcome to family life.

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You can find us at family life today.com. This is family life today. So my dad had a drinking problem for over 60 years of his life and he finally got free in an

interesting way. Yeah your dad got remarried and I happened to when we were engaged I went down to visit your dad and

his wife of maybe 10 years your stepmom and I remember asking her like, hey so tell me about you and Dave, Dave was named after his dad,

tell me about your life with him and she said, well I had no idea he was an

alcoholic when we got married. Like uncontrollable fits of

rage, he was losing the car because he didn't know where we parked it and he would

blackout every night and she said I thought I have to come up with a strategy and so I thought to myself and she didn't have faith but she was pretty intuitive and she said I thought to myself what does he love the most in life and the thing he

loves the most in life is money and so she thought he loved his stuff yeah he did so

he would black out and she would go around the house and destroy it. She'd break mirrors,

windows, lamps, furniture, everything and then in the next day when he would come to, he would be aghast.

Like what happened to the house? he would be aghast.

Like, what happened to the house?

She said, this is what you did last night.

And it's happening every night.

Yes, every night, there's more and more.

And he said, I can't afford to drink anymore. I'm destroying everything in my life

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