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When spouses disagree about alcohol's role in physical symptoms

My husband developed a tremor that gets worse when he drinks but he won't admit it's connected, and I'm torn between documenting what I see to prove the link and just pretending I don't notice because he gets so defensive when I bring up his health.

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More people experience this than they realize.

What we've seen

Intimate partnerships can become battlegrounds of observation and denial when one person sees connections between alcohol and physical decline that the other refuses to acknowledge.

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“Where Are You with Alcohol and the body?”

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