Cheryl McCollum
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You know, we didn't, no one was talking about addiction to opioids at that time.
Nobody.
Seven years.
Seven years.
So yeah, how much do you think, how much was that a part of her denial?
Did she talk about that?
Well, I'm sure that that was.
It was all of the things you're bringing up.
you know, were a part of it.
And she didn't want to believe it.
She was told not to believe it by people in her life that mattered.
And she had kids.
And, you know, it's, I mean, I've been through it.
It's really hard to get a divorce, even when you both want it.
It's really hard.
Right.
And even if people are civil,
Right.
You know, so and and in those days you were told it's better to stay in an unhappy marriage than to put your kids through a divorce.
That was the more a, you know, from the late 80s, certainly through the 90s.