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You start to think of just yourself.
You try to, you isolate yourself, you don't want to be in any,
social settings are difficult
with loved ones, things like that.
It just tears your family apart at some levels.
I've been married three times, and my first wife really took
the brunt of me, so to speak, and she ended up leaving me.
She was in love with me, and she ended up leaving me.
And then the second wife, and then I destroyed that
relationship with the drugs and alcohol.
I put myself through, I went to the VA, finally, to try and
change things and went to Menlo Park here in California,
to drug and rehab, and that didn't work because I ended up
fighting with an intern and a doctor.
So I got out and continued to drink
and destroyed my marriage.
Two children by that marriage, and I get along
real well with them now.
I was a single parent for a while,
and that was extremely difficult.
Relationships with other people at work and things like that,
I was a Good Time Charlie, they knew me as just a
really nice guy, likes to drink and have fun, but deep down
I was a mess, I was just a mess, it was just a cover.
It was the way I stuffed everything inside me.