If you are worried about your alcoholic friend, family member or spouse, or if you are struggling yourself to deal with their behaviours, consider reaching out for help and support. Talking this through with a rational and compassionate professional will help to ease your own despair. I questioned and she denied it and said she was now starting to get mad at me for accusing her repeatedly.

Often the family members of alcoholics suffer intense psychological, physical and social trauma due to the core drinking problem of the family member. Thus, the family members of alcoholic participants often feel estranged and are looked on by others. When he said this I burst out laughing as every sentence in the previous chapters was about trying / tricking her into changing something - or "taming" / "handling" her.

She is a strong willed person and does not easily admit her weaknesses and I'm sure if I suggest getting help the idea will be laughed at.

Booze had got hold of my brain and was whispering cruel things in my ear about Anna: “She’s being dramatic. If your spouse is drunk and angry, the best thing you can do is to remove yourself from the situation. I 100% trust her when sober or any other time but when she gets into this state she doesn't know what the hell she's doing I worry what she'll do and I don't trust her drunk. Shikha is bit money minded, self-centered woman, in fact initially she was on the verge of being rude and selfish. This woman said she had hosted a thousand dinner parties over the years, and now – in her 70s – she was over it, but when she said so, her husband would “throw a fit.Kuruvilla and Rao, (2004) reported that impact of alcoholism can be so marked on the female partner that she herself start behaving like an addict. I do think it might be something your wife might want to at least check out, especially seeing as you can not relate at all. I gave it a pass as the author has probably no experience with it and the depiction here is very consistent with how addition is portrayed on other popular Indian media when it concerns women. Moreover, in Indian society, marital separation owing to drinking problem is still considered more stigmatic than staying in a conflicting discordant relation.