He stopped drinking at 27 fully intending to become a normal drinker. The drinking stayed gone; the shame did not, until a second addiction ended his marriage.

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Two cookies at a summer acting camp, then a mirror she could not unsee. Emily spent college alone with food before residential treatment reset her plate.

His mom pulled it up on the family computer with his older cousin sitting right there. Alex felt lower than scum - and a sermon had already named it for him.

At 39 a nurse refused to send him home and he was in surgery within the hour. Lucky Church on the eating and drinking he never counted as an addiction.

She waited up and called the bars. Then Al-Anon told her to go to bed at eleven and let her husband be a grown man. How she rebuilt a marriage from her side.