Alyssa suffered through 11 years of her husband's addiction, and she feared the worst.

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My husband would sometimes have to enter into the conversations with our four girls, and

would find out something they did that they shouldn't have, and to just see the looks

on my girl's faces when they would realize they've been caught.

They wanted to place you to my video games, and we felt that we didn't want to expose

them to that kind of violence, and so we just flat out said no, and that was hard for

them.

I remember butting heads with my parents whenever they asked me to do the chores and I

was in the middle of something else, and so I would do it, but I would do it with a bad

attitude.

Whenever my parents and I would butt heads, usually I would just get really quiet and make

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