A Story of Love and Tragedy

Here is a story of love and tragedy.  Girl and Boy meet.  They get married.  They have children…3.  They love each other.  They love their children.  It is stressful to raise 3 little children.  The mother complains.  The father starts drinking…and doesn’t stop.  He hides in his office.  The mother loses it.  She gets depressed.  The father keeps drinking.  The mother gets help.  The father and mother go into marital counseling.  The father reports to the counselor that he is happier than the mother reports in their marriage.  The counselor thinks the father drinks because the marriage is bad.  The mother doesn’t call the counselor again, so they don’t go to counseling anymore.  The father keeps drinking.  He is verbally and emotionally abusive.  The mother asks him to leave.  The father leaves.  He does not come back.  The mother waits and waits and waits for 7 years.  He keeps drinking.  She does not stop loving him.  He becomes obsessed with soothing himself.  He doesn’t pay attention to his children.  The mother raises the children.  She hopes that he will stop drinking and come back.  He doesn’t.  He says that he doesn’t care what happens to her.  He thinks that she doesn’t deserve his help…the mother decides that it is time to get a lawyer…