In addition to his wife's pressure to
drink, the husband was urged to drink by his father--
also an alcoholic---during his recovery. Thus, in some
families other family members--alcoholic or not--
can actually make it difficult to stop drinking. I have
found this to be very much the case in former
Yugoslavia also where wider cultural patterns so
firmly support a positive value toward heavy drinking---
especially among men--such that the pressures
to drink within and without the family can be extremely
compelling