Dear Queenie,
My wife is a different person when she drinks and when she sobers up she never remembers what she said and did while she was drunk. I have tried to tell her but she thinks I’m making it up to get her to quit drinking like I did a couple of years ago, because “misery loves company.”
Queenie, how can I get her to see the truth?—Sober husband
Dear husband,
Telling your wife what she has said and/or done while she was drunk is not enough. You will have to show her. These days, with so many electronic recording devices available, it should be possible to arrange to video-record one of her drunken episodes with full sound effects. Even your cell phone might be adequate for the task.
Hopefully, the shock of seeing herself as others see her will motivate her to stop. And if she needs more help than you alone can give her, refer her to Alcoholics Anonymous (for contact information, if you do not already have it, see Agenda, page 2 of this newspaper).
