In most of these families, though, the alcoholic parent was the one to find a solution to the drinking.
One alcoholic wife recalled, "I guess it was about a year ago when I realized I was totally out of control.
Booze was not the answer any longer. So I just quit."Sometimes they make these decisions because they
know the family will no longer accept their drinking behavior: "My husband realized that he would either
have to stop that behavior or there would be no marriage."