Originally Posted by
gns 
wow. the pages quoted from morning glory make it sound like "the wife" of an alkie should not assert any of her needs.
Anyone else reading it that way?
Please keep in mind that the Big Book was written MANY decades ago - the first edition came out in 1939 - when attitudes and expectations for women were much different. It has a lot of wisdom in it, but you must sift it out of the times and societal norms in which it was written.
Personally, I think that chapter is crap.