After 15 years of marriage, the wife of a Mexican American man left
him due, she said, to his heavy drinking. He drank only after a hard
day's work and does not think he has an alcohol problem. But since
she left, he is thinking twice.
What occurred?
A. His machismo let him feel that he fulfilled obligations by working
hard and he deserved to drink without criticism. Now he feels
emasculated and powerless.
B. He is too full of machismo and cannot see how his alcohol
dependence ruined his marriage. You are glad his wife finally left
him after 15 years.
C. He is experiencing acculturative stress, forgetting the fatalistic
perspective of his culture. His wife was fated to leave. He does
not have a problem.
D. He has lost his feeling of machismo, which allowed him to hold
his liquor.
A
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