Reverend Johnny Dragon

In Recovery we spend a great deal of time talking about experience, strength and hope when it comes to no longer living a life dependent on alcohol and or drugs. This is all fine and good, but I have found that we also have a lot of opinions on other things that most of us have no real experience to base said opinion. One of these areas has to do with personal relationships. There is nothing I love more than when people give relationship advice based off Sandra Bullock movies. You know what I’m talking about, get a plant and if the plant lives in a year get a dog and…well you get the picture. Hollywood nonsense based nothing on what is real. If following these guidelines rock your boat then so be it! Do not, however think that any of that has any true bearing on what is truth.

I often get asked to do talks on Relationships in Recovery and I generally give a resounding no. Why? Simple, I am absolutely the last person that should ever be giving direction on what a healthy relationship should look like. Now, if you ever need to research a book on what a really sick relationship should look like then I am your man! I am writing all of this for one specific purpose and that is to say that for some of us, God understands that He must actually step in and make something happen or most of us would just wander around aimlessly bumping in to trees. Four years ago God did that for me.

It was at that time that he brought the incomparable Ms. Sherri St. George in to my life. You see, Texas was the last place on Earth she should have ever have come to live, and Sears is absolutely the last place on the planet that I would have ever worked. God decided that humor and irony would rule the day and a partnership unlike any other came to be. Most people don’t get me, but she does. Sherri helps me see potential that I never knew could even exist. As of February 28 we have been married for three years and I have cherished every single moment. We have gone through the birth of two beautiful little boys and we have combined four other Children in a seamless combination of love and support. We have survived some major upheavals in our lives and have come out the other side hand in hand, drying each others tears as we inevitably fall back in to laughter. Her brilliant mind and heart stopping smile move my soul. The best thing about all of it is that she is my Best Friend, and only God is smart enough to allow you to marry your best friend. I love you Sherri St. George Darley and thank you for marrying me three years ago. Thank you God for doing for me what I could never do for myself.

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