More typically,to have his wife tell him before a social event that he should
moderate his drinking was enough to precipitate him
to drink even more since he "didn't like to be told
what to do." In most families in this and two earlier
studies we have conducted on familial alcoholism
[51, 52], the non-alcoholic spouse used a wide assemblage
of strategies to cajole the husband (most often)
into curtailing his drinking.