Less than a year after marrying, my husband confessed his alcoholism was worse than I knew and he was over $10k in debt. Counseling, ultimatums, lots of fighting and thinking we would not make it, and especially since I was raised by an alcoholic dad I was not keen to stick around and thought we were headed to an early divorce. Tried to live with it for a while, had a baby, thought things were okay, then a b**b dropped and I found out he was having booze delivered to our house and getting wasted while home alone caring for our infant. I just about set his a*s on fire and never wanted to see him again. I kicked him out and was in the process of figuring out how to get him out of my life for good.

He stayed with his parents while he worked his a*s off to better himself, came clean to everyone in his life and admitted he had a drinking problem, started SMART meetings and got an at-home blood alcohol test to show me his sincerity and hold himself accountable, overcame his alcoholism, and is a completely different person today than he was 3 years ago before we both quit drinking completely. That, in my opinion, was 1000% undeniable marriage-level commitment, that was what I signed up for. He showed me he was fighting for us and was worth that fight. It genuinely made us closer than ever and helped me further appreciate that I married an incredible person.

This happened to my mother:
She was on a long plane ride sitting next to an older lady when halfway through the flight the woman started to go into cardiac arrest. She freaked out and called for help, and the captain went on the loudspeaker asking if there was a doctor on the plane.

As it turned out, there WAS in fact a doctor on the plane. Several, actually. A team of cardiologists was going to a conference in the city the plane was landing in, and they had all their equipment in carry-on. They got the woman stabilized almost immediately. She was actually better of than if she had a heart attack on the street, because she didn't have to wait for an ambulance.

Not a doctor. Just Jewish.

Services are going well Saturday morning, when one man on the bimah keels over. Rabbi leaps over to check on him, president gets up and yells "is there a doctor here? "

50 people stand up. Wealthy Jewish congregation. President throws his hands up "wait! Is there a cardiologist here? "

Now it's down to three rushing the bimah. Guy had had a pretty major heart attack but lived.