1.   As a prologue indicates, they got off on the wrong foot at home, where their father was an abusive alcoholic.

2.   He spent most of his first few years in New Jersey with his father, a physically abusive alcoholic who eventually committed suicide.

3.   His faith, he says, was shelter from the chaos of his childhood after his father left the family and his mother remarried to an abusive alcoholic.

4.   I married an abusive alcoholic.

5.   Later she married a man, Roger Clinton, who was charming but at times an abusive alcoholic.

6.   Skip Timmendequas had been described by the defense as an abusive alcoholic and a con man.