LJ Idol: Current Events

[xreesex]

I married my husband because I loved him, and because at that point in my life I had never met another who just GOT me the way he did- or at least no one who got me AND felt the same way about me. He was someone who was charming, funny, handsome, kind and very funny. He was also a long time alcoholic- something I never admitted to myself until it

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[we_got_caught]

<3 <3

[lawchicky]

This is very sad. I actually have a case pending right now where there's a custody dispute because one of the spouses has several DUI/DWI charges and recently tried to pick up the child while drunk :(

[alien_infinity]

I liked your ending paragraph a lot. ♥

[whipchick]

I really like how you show the disrepair in the relationship and your struggle without over-emoting. This is very powerful, and I'm so glad as a person that you escaped it while being glad as a writer that you have the gift to retell it.

One piece of concrit (because it's good, and this is slightly distracting in the flow) - "when my husband would pick him up from school" and the following sentence - perhaps the past tense to go with "informed me that there were" so instead, "when my husband had picked him up", etc?

This is such a strong piece - thank you.

[basric]

HUGS, AND MORE HUGS.