06.26.2013 -- When my son first "hooked" up with his bride he was smitten. He would call me up saying how much in love he was. He was determined to make this relationship work. Then he started telling me he wanted to get married. I protested, you don't know each other well enough. Get engaged have at least a year engagement. No he wanted to marry, buy a house and the whole nine yards. I'd ask if they had lost their fucking minds. We know what we are doing. Within weeks of the hooking up he had bought her an engagement ring. Or at least I thought he had, they never paid for it. About a year later the jewelry store would have his wages garnished. She is still wearing the ring. I wouldn't want to look down at my finger and see a ring that was stolen. In all they waited to Feb to marry.  Then it started. Her insecurities started popping out. When he went to the closing on the house, because her credit was horrid he took me. She was so jealous and told him so. I didn't know what to say about that.
Then she stopped our once weekly luncheon dates, again jealously. Then made sure our almost daily phone calls stopped. She was slowly eating my sons soul.
Unknown to me he was getting addicted to opiates.  I would notice his slurred voice. He would tell me I was losing my hearing, or he was tired. He started not answering the phone when I called him.
One visit my husband had with them she fixed a lovely dinner. We ate and sat down to watch a movie, almost immediately the slurring began. My husband got up and left.