Try to remember that you're trying to fill a need in your husband that's so deep, so insatiable, that it's like a bottomless pit. Keeping him reassured is an impossible task. And it will only come when he is willing and ready to get well. If you are not exhausted already from running yourself ragged trying to please him, you soon will be. I am not advocating defiance.
All alcoholics have it as a major symptom of their disease.
They will do what they want to, no matter who they hurt. This chapter promotes, instead, the concept of the wife living ethically. This chapter simply suggests that she act like a responsible, ethical adult. Help me to be completely honest with myself. If he threatens this, he's still very sick.