Das beweist eine wissenschaftliche Studie aus Kalifornien und Alabama. Sie kommt zum Schluss, dass

• Women who marry alcoholics may have unique characteristics that influence their partner's drinking.
• One study compares the characteristics of women who married alcoholic men with those of women whose husbands did not develop alcoholism.
• Women who had married alcoholic men were less likely to be homemakers, and were more likely to smoke, misuse alcohol, and use illicit drugs themselves.