There are two central freedoms the wife of the alcoholic needs to become aware she possesses before she can effectively work to change her husband's alcohol abuse. Before she can exercise these two central freedoms, however, the wife of the alcoholic needs to learn how her husband has systematically manipulated her into a chronic state of exasperated helplessness and despair. Alcoholics Anonymous emphasizes that in order for an alcoholic to truly attain stable sobriety, he needs to resolve "the stinkin' thinkin' that triggers the drinkin'." But what is stinking thinking? Where does it come...