I had never known my long-ago therapist ever drank, and he and I had never talked about drinking in relation to myself or anyone else. Now fast-forward just a few years...

I had lost all control over my drinking while drinking, I could not just "put the plug in the jug" and leave it there, and I knew nothing at all about alcoholism and therefore had no idea how or why those two things had become true about me. I had not seen my therapist in quite some time, but then my ex-wife told me he had asked her to say "Hi!" the next time she saw me and to let me know he was "sober". I immediately dropped everything and went to see him, and he helped me begin to understand those two factors about myself while also telling me where I could find help just as had happened for him since the last time I had seen him!