Father of the Bride

Men don’t cry!” “Drink like a real man.” “Work hard and long and don’t whine.” These are all lessons I learned from what I now know were alcoholic parents who did the best they could with what they had to work with. It’s how they were taught to live, and what they thought was the proper way to raise a boy to be a man. Turning my life and my will over to a Higher Power seemed so alien and against everything I learned growing up.