what she was going to do about it.

The ridiculous drunk is very similar to the obnoxious drunk only in this way, I would generally arrive home earlier and pro- ceed to tell my wife that she didn't understand me. Feeling gen- erally very sorry for myself, I would belabor the fact that she could not possibly understand the emotional strain that I am under- going in an effort to avoid expressing my feminine nature.

The obnoxious and the ridiculous behavior both have one thing in common, which I think you can readily see. Both are attitudes assumed by a stupid and immature child.

Now you are probably saying, sure it is stupid for him to drink, but he has a wife that understands. You are probably con- soling yourself at this very moment by saying if you had a wife that understood your feelings that you would never need a drink. Let's go a little deeper into this and see if you would leave alco- hol alone. As I stated earlier in this article, my wife has known of my transvestite desires for eleven years and I have been a drinker for a good part of these eleven years. In a mood of re- morse following over indulgence, I have sat down and tried to logically justify my actions to my wife. Sure, I told her, you say you don't mind my being a TV, but you are only saying this because you have to and besides you want me to quit drinking. Trying to further explain my actions I said, you accept these actions because you are my wife, but do you realize if anyone else found out that I wouldn't have a friend in the world? My wife argued this point with me by saying that people in general were a lot nicer than I gave them credit for and that the majority of them probably had little oddities of their own, so what gave me the right to feel that I had to be the utmost in perfection.

There is a lot of good common logic in what she said, but not being a mature or logical person I was unable to see this.

About eight months ago, I came in one evening and our neigh-

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