In Paul Kelly's classic "To Her Door" we are rooting for the guy to sort himself out and get the family back together. I always wondered how it was for Mum and the kids when she left him to stay at her brother's place at the start of the second verse. A companion piece if you like.
Lyrics
She didn't want to tell him till they made it to his place
He couldn’t well refuse them if she told him to his face
And before he could mull it over and run it by his wife
Josie could be witty but she fairly ran his life
They gathered on his sea side porch her daughters formed a queue
All tired and confused
Her brother gets the news:
That good for nothing drunkard well I left him in the pews
To turn to someone else
Return to get some help
She went to her brother’s ‘cause she didn’t know who else
To turn to at this time
Turn to out of line
A family pulls together if there ever comes a time
She went to her brother’s with her girls and time would tell
They got to know their cousins yeah they all got along so well
One day out of the blue she gets a letter in the post
He’d tracked her to the Coast
I’m sober was his boast
I’d like to come and see you and the children - will you host?
They couldn’t stay forever and came time to call it quits
Ol’ Josie had got the shits
She goes in starts and fits
Brother said enough’s enough’s enough
But she left there felling glad
In the time she spent she had
Realized she loved that man and the girls they need a Dad
To turn to at this time
Turn to down the line
A family pulls together if there ever comes a time
To turn to
Yeah to turn to
To turn to