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Save Some for Me: Inspiration for Single Mothers and the People who Love Them
by Susan A. Jennings
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 The Nightmare Comes True: Drinking and Drugs-How Dare He Leave Me
January 1969 did bring some changes. I have often wondered if he was worried that I might leave. He stopped drinking and once again life went back to "normal" with discussions about a career move. He wanted to further his education and study psychiatry, so why not make this another major move? Within six months we sold the house, packed up our belongings and three children and landed in St. John’s, Newfoundland. Rodney held the position of Psychiatric Resident at the Mental Hospital.
Newfoundlanders or "Newfies" as they call themselves, love to party and drink (particularly, Screech, a very potent rum). Rodney was in heaven now that he had some serious drinking pals and life was one big party.
There is an expression, "it takes one to know one," and it wasn't long before Rodney was as sick and depressed as his patients. Living with a drunk is very difficult because you live on adrenaline, constantly on guard, prepared for something to happen. After a while, you recognize the signs and play your cards as skillfully as you know how. Add to that clinical depression and suicide threats. It was like living with a loose cannon. If he was not in a rage lashing out at everyone and everything, he was lying motionless staring into space, drinking to feel something, or drinking to dull the pain. The only constant was that you never knew what might happen next. Looking back I find it amazing that we still partied with friends and if I voiced concern I was told to "leave him be, he's just having fun." Even more surprising is that Rodney's colleagues at the hospital didn't see that he had a problem.
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