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What happens when the man standing in the pulpit every Sunday is secretly battling alcoholism...and his wife is the one carrying the weight of it behind closed doors?

In this powerful conversation, I sit down with Sam, a former pastor’s wife, to talk about what it was really like to be married to a pastor struggling with addiction while living in full-time ministry.

To the congregation, they were a ministry family. But behind the scenes, Sam was navigating the reality of loving someone with an addiction while also dealing with the expectations, pressure, and image that can come with being a pastor’s family.

When an unexpected event eventually brought her husband’s struggle into the light, everything changed.

We talk honestly about addiction, marriage, faith, ministry, shame, forgiveness, and the complicated reality of loving someone you cannot simply save.

Sam also shares the story behind her book, The Prodigal's Son: Crackhead to Jesus Freak...a deeply personal account she wrote from the conversations and interviews she had with her husband during the final months of his life.

This conversation is about more than addiction. It’s about the people who love addicts, the secrets families carry, and what happens when the life people see on Sunday doesn't tell the whole story.

If you've ever loved someone struggling with addiction...or wondered what happens behind the doors of a ministry family...this conversation is for you.

#Addiction #Alcoholism #Deconstruction #Pastorswife #Exvangelical #AA #Recovery

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