These are my personal opinions. Always seek a professional when you're making choices about your mental health and well-being.

It finally happened and I don't know exactly how to approach this subject. I'm not really sure what I'm going to talk about in this episode.

Don't hang up yet.

But my stepfather passed away.

If you've been listening a while, he was quite the dominating negative force in my life, at least for the first 20 or 30 years.

And he was an abusive alcoholic, and he really hurt my mom for many years.

He was with her for 40 years.

And he's hurt other members of my family.

And he died. He finally died. I mean, I say that

because he has almost been blackout drunk every night for as long as I've known him. So I

honestly don't know how he lived so long.

And the way he died was a slow deterioration, which I wish on no one.

No matter what they've done, I don't wish the way he died on anyone because he started

falling apart and he started losing control of things on his body.

And I won't get too detailed.

But it was very sad.

At the same time, he has been like a topic of our conversations on this show for a long time for the last 11 years.

And we all thought like 15 years ago when he started coughing up blood.

Sorry, but that's what happened.

He drank every day and his body was reacting to it or falling apart, like I said.

But when he started doing that, we thought, okay, his time is close.

He is getting ready to leave the planet.

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