This is a story about someone who suffered from drug addiction, recovering from alcohol abuse, being abused physically, emotionally and verbally, then carrying that into a marriage. The story also is about the abuses one goes through living with someone suffering from these issues. This person not only suffered the addictions and the abuse, but suffered for twenty five years with multiple sclerosis, which is a disease that can alter a person's personality, rob them of quality of life, adding that to the suffering from addiction and abuse. In telling this story I hoped to reach people that may be suffering an abuse they do not recognize as abuse; emotional and verbal abuse. So much emphasis it put on physical abuse that people sometimes are unaware that emotional and verbal abuse are just as damaging. The scars run deep though they are not physically visible. This is my story of how I finally escaped living under these conditions and I hope that it will give inspiration to others.