She is politely managing to convey that her parents screwed her up, big-time, setting her up for future" difficult" relationships. She married young, to a man who would ultimately develop a terrible drinking problem like her father, and she eventually got sick and tired of reacting to his behavior and decided to change hers. She talks of the son she had with Michael Cochran, what a good boy he was and how, finally, years later her dream came true, her husband got sober. The only problem was that after two years of sobriety and twenty years of marriage, he left her.
