October 7

October 7 – AM          Page 111, To Wives, Chapter 8

Be determined that your husband’s drinking is not going to spoil your relations  with your children or your friends.  They need your companionship and your help.  It is possible to have a full and useful life, though your husband continues to drink.  We know women who are unafraid, even happy under these conditions.  Do not set your heart on reforming your husband.  You may be unable to do so, no matter how hard you try.
We know these suggestions are sometimes difficult to follow, but you will save many a heartbreak if you can succeed in observing them.  Your husband may come to appreciate your reasonableness and patience.  This may lay the groundwork for a friendly talk about his alcoholic problem.  Try to have him bring up the subject himself.  Be sure you are not critical during such a discussion.  Attempt instead, to put yourself in his place.  Let him see that you want to be helpful rather than critical.

October 7 – PM          Page 20-21, There Is A Solution, Chapter 2

Moderate drinkers have little trouble in giving up liquor entirely if they have good reason for it.  They can take it or leave it alone.
Then we have a certain type of hard drinker.  He may have the habit badly enough to gradually impair him physically and mentally.  It may cause him to die a few years before his time.  If a sufficiently strong reason—ill health, falling in love, change of environment, or the warning of a doctor—becomes operative, this man can also stop or moderate, although he may find it difficult and troublesome and may even need medical attention.
But what about the real alcoholic?  He may start off as a moderate drinker; he may or may not become a continuous hard drinker; but at some stage of his drinking career he begins to lose all control of his liquor consumption, once he starts to drink.