My Dad was in ill health through most of my 6 year marriage but I’ll never forget in his younger days, when my oldest sister was being abused by her alcoholic husband, he took several of the brothers and I believe he carried an axe over to the apartment but my brother-in-law got away out the back door. My brother-in-law stopped drinking and is still married to my sister for over 35 years. I’ll never forget him weeping at my Dad’s bedside as he passed away.
I don’t know what I said to him, but he said, I loved him too ya know. That said it all.