This is my life now. This is the life that I deserve. It all started so small and harmlessly. Thinking back now I can hardly believe that a ridiculous fight with my husband was the beginning of my afflictions. A fight that, as it turns out, was the beginning of the end. It started with him stumbling in at 4 o’clock in the morning after a night playing poker and drinking as much as he could before he had to come home. He woke me up as he was stumbling around trying to get into bed.

I was at my boiling point because this seemed to be a very common...