Al-Anon Family Group - Al-Anon Family Group

peppermintnginger · peppermintnginger

I know that Al-Anon is not a religious organization, but I understand that an aknowledgement of a higher power is central to working the program. I do not want this to be a discussion of theological rights and wrongs. I'm trying to understand how I can fit my uncertain perspective of a higher power int...

Hoot Nanny · Hoot Nanny

I am so glad & thankful to those wonderful people who adjust the costs on lab reports. I was pleasantly surprised by the letter I got concerning the bill for my current lab reports to find out what is actually wrong w/ me. I got the letter in the mail on Sat. & was so happy to receive it. This sounds k...

Bailey1218 · Bailey1218

Hi I can't believe I'm the one writing a post about this, but I'm in a pretty bad place trying to figure things out. I think my husband is an alcoholic or at least on his way to be one. We've had a rough few years with infidelity, which happned prior to our 2 kids. This past January he found out the truth and his...

mrs sad and lonely · mrs sad and lonely

please, and what do you/they drink

jitsuka · jitsuka

I'm sitting here practising my detachment, keeping my boundaries. Step 1. My partner who is the A in my life came home, she popped upstairs. After we put dinner on she was upstairs again. At dinner time she was obviously UI. I hate these times. It seems like every day I am living this perpetual nightm...

MadMax · MadMax

I live with my alcoholic sister and my 10 year old niece. I want out more than anything in the world but I can't leave my niece there alone with her mother. I used to feel sorry for my sister and I tried to help her as best I could. She just drinks and lies and nothing changes. All I feel now is disgust and resent...

Path to Serenity · Path to Serenity

I was doing some googling this morning & ran across some writings by a long-time AA member on Step #8 that touched my deeply so I thought I'd share a little. I've worked the 12steps in AA and Al-anon over the years but have discovered that the process never really ends. Having worked the 8th step to t...

InspiredPhotography · InspiredPhotography

I have heard that there are is a online session once a week. What time is that? Also I assume that my daughter would have to make up her own name? Or could she use mine and change the nick? I am not sure if she will post much with the fourms. The talking maybe a good thing for her though. Thanks (BTW she is 12 will...

mrs sad and lonely · mrs sad and lonely

i am mum of tree children, hubby off work due to depression has been yrs, now doesnt take his tablets, he drinkf from afternoon thru til bed sometime late afternoon, he has been known to call sexual lines and run up £1000s on phone bill i keep saying thats it enough now and he says no moe, but i cant get him to...

InspiredPhotography · InspiredPhotography

Sorry for all the questions.... Ok so I have started to attend the meetings, what next? I know I need to read books....what about sponser? I am kind of like a 4 year old starting JK and it's my first day of school. Awkward, scared and alittle excited. Help me out? :)

TrudyS85 · TrudyS85

Well, after finding the empty bottles last Monday my AH developed 'heartburn' and 8 days later and he is having intense pain in his esphogaus. We went to the ER on Sat and they said it wasn't his heart so sent us on our way to go see an internal doc. Well, if he was sour and negative before now it is just ridicu...

InspiredPhotography · InspiredPhotography

Can someone still be sick eventhough they have not used or drink in years? How does one completely recover? Does it go deeper then just stopping or quitting?

JJ21 · JJ21

Reading other posts and thinking of my own situation I am amazed and just blain baffeled by the selfishness of this disease. In the nine years of living with my husband drinking and dry drunking it he always tried to show me affection and concern. He always had a crisis we had to handle but was apprecia...

Bettina · Bettina

"To be aware of a single shortcoming within oneself is more useful than to be aware of a thousand in somebody else. Rather than speaking badly about people in ways that will produce friction and unrest in their lives. We should practice a purer perception of them and when we speak of others, spea...

willowtree · willowtree

"If I'm over there in someone else's business... who's over here taking care of mine?"- Byron Katie I really loved this quote. To me it shows me how my life can become very unmanagable as soon as I am in someone else's buisness. Alanon and the sayings such as "Stay in your own hula-h...

catlady379 · catlady379

Hi. I am not sure how to do this except to just jump in. I am a mother of a teenage (19) son who is actively using. He has admitted to my husband and I that he is smoking marijuana and drinking. He has already been to rehab-about 2 years ago and they wanted him to enter into a halfway house and he stayed ther...

Pipper · Pipper

My ah tells me he doesn't know what he wants somedays he wants to e here other days he wants to move back to ny cause he feels comfortable there in the bars ..he was sober for 19 years and active about 3 now he's turning 50 and retiring from his job end of sept had plans to open his own bus and everything was supp...

TH · TH

My recovering ABF and I have been together for a year and a half. He is a wonderful man and a challenging man. He is about six years sober and worked a very rigorous program including counseling others for the first few years. He does not attend meetings now. We are now in the "dew but not the bloom...

Donna Lee · Donna Lee

The past two years have been the worst dealing with my alcoholic husband and enraged daughter. We both were caught in the lies and deception and my daughter has lost respect for me and my husband. We have done the gamut--had him arrested and jailed three times, court ordered out patient rehab (which...

JJ21 · JJ21

So the ex has decided to bombard me with texts today listing all his bills and how he can barely keep up and how he is just throwing everything out of the storage shed. I already told him to do this two months ago and then he conned me into paying it for one more month (when he has more money than me) so he could...

InspiredPhotography · InspiredPhotography

Hi there. I am a mother of two beautiful young ladies. My S/O and I have been together for 5 years. He battles depression on an ongoing basis. Although I try to reach him he is very detached. We have good moments but often then not mostly are filled with confusion, pain and tears. I have tried to be a source o...

holivex · holivex

My AH is currently in the midst of his second hospitalization for detox in the past six weeks. The first time he went in was mid-July. He was discharged on the 18th and back to drinking by the 20th. I kicked him out of the house and haven't seen him (aside from a few hours on August 5th) since. He is curre...

InspiredPhotography · InspiredPhotography

So today is my Birthday:) My S/O is working. I know he has breaks inbetween, he hasn't bothered to text me. That is ok :) It would be nice, but not necessary. This am he got up and went right for his phone to check his Facebook. I started to hang up the laundry. He is like what? You aren't going to talk to me? Hon...

diane99 · diane99

Hello, I am new here and this is my first posting. My husband is a binge drinker and because of the trouble he has caused in the past with family and jobs, etc. he cannot live with the guilt. He can go for months without a drink, but I might say one wrong thing about the past and he is off on a binge again. I ha...

InspiredPhotography · InspiredPhotography

I am not sure what books to start with? My S/O isn't actively drinking, or using. He just has severe depression & some of the behaviours I have read (sounds like he exhibits an addict traits). Does that make sense? So the book Getting Them Sober ~ would I benefit from it? Can I order it online, or woul...

InspiredPhotography · InspiredPhotography

I have seen Online Meetings (email). Can someone explain what it is? What is it for?

ilovkevin · ilovkevin

Well next month will be 1 yr Kevin and I have been together. We truely feel like soul mates, the one thing I can trust is that we are really in love. In the begining of our relationship one of his best friends (Matt) from high school drove me 300 miles to visit Kevin. What happened was very distrubing and le...

tortuga · tortuga

Today I feel kind of helpless. My family left afetr 3 weeks visit, and several discussions and adressing problems related to alcohol, for which I'm glad, even though a realize it has been toug hon my parents. I sometimes feel guilty for being the only one speaking up in this family, all the other member...

guiltytwin · guiltytwin

Hi, Let me make a short introduction here. I'am a young woman who lives togehter with her boyfriend. I am also the daughter of 2 alcohol adicts. Both my parents are alcholics and are really doing bad. (i will not bore you with my difficult history and how they started drinking) Both my parents are i real...

erleichda · erleichda

I understand that alcoholism is a disease. I don't understand why in the year 2012 we are relying primarily on a program thought up a century ago. I can see the positive aspects of AA and Alanon, but most of those can be learned through other therapy. The slogans and prayer just remind me of faith healing...

suebama · suebama

I'm a newbie and have a lot to learn, but I think I may be picking up on some things, thanks to all y'all: 1. I need to concentrate on myself and not on him, 2. Who my AXH dates and what he does is none of my business and he's probably not as happy as I imagine him to be, 3. My life is worth living without him, 4....

Theemettaart · Theemettaart

Hi again, Since things are getting worse with my (our) dad, he has been using pretty heavy medications. He is using Diazepam and Zaldiar ( a medication with tramadol included). Now both mecdications recommend not using any alchol what so ever. I have tried telling my mom about the use of alchol, beca...

JJ21 · JJ21

Went to a Co-dependents meeting last night and it was a little fun. They are lighter and focus on detachment from our own obsessive thoughts and worrying and needy people, which is a good thing. I was reading the book and the whole time I keep thinking (Oh this would work for so and so) lol. Classic examp...

Bettina · Bettina

"Love is the absence of Judgment". "The best relationship is one in which your love for eachother exceeds your need for each other."

hotrod · hotrod

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JJ21 · JJ21

Went to an Alanon meeting tonight at a center where they also hold AA meetings. I'm in a large city so the meeting are large as well. I found it interesting that the men for the AA meetings were hanging out in front and flirting with all the women going into the Alanon meeting. My, thought was like don't...

tortuga · tortuga

Is it me or am I just being tried on or tested by the A? I wake up, i'm happy, because I'm being me. I chat with the A, and in 2 seconds out of the blue, he manges to have turned the conversation on about alcohol, his desire to drink and a final sentence 'you don't respect my feelings, you try to make me sad, you wa...

LMar · LMar

This is my first time here, so please bare with me. My common law husband is addicted to pain killers for a little more than 3 yrs now. Finally he went to rehab, a 21 day program at an amazing house.He came out positive and seemed to have a new lease on life. He's been home a week and as been acting like he has be...

freeagain · freeagain

I am ending a relationship I have had for about 5 months. I am so addicted to this guy. I recognise this about me. I have actually been super aware of MY character defects through out. But it hasn't made it any easier. At all. He isnt an alcoholic but he def has issues and isms. And here's why i am so addicted....

Doozy · Doozy

Hi All, I haven't been posting much for quite a while, but I have been reading often. I just wanted to say THANK YOU from the bottom of my heart to the WONDERFUL people on this board. I can't even tell you how much I have learned here and how much you have helped me. It's amazing. We may never know each other'...

Breakingfree · Breakingfree

So I started school for my RN last week and can see I will have to put all my extra energy into my school work to keep my GPA up to keep my financial aid. The boyfriend and I are doing great and are having many adventures and I finally feel like I am living and out of my head more than ever. My exAH has been strug...

pineapple · pineapple

..the next few days is going to be tough. My A is finally leaving, moving back with family. Of course my emotions are all over the place. But right now I'm just trying to get through the next few days. I've tried to get him to start packing, he shows no interest, says he doesn't need anything. For awhile he h...

rehprof · rehprof

In a weird way, time has proven me to be right about my ex-A. I have always felt judged by his family...as if I was making up the degree to which his behavior was a problem...and his sisters still insist that he is doing okay when they talk to me. Then there is reality. He talked to me briefly the other day abo...

Tracy · Tracy

Hi all, i shared how my ex abf has not had a drink for over a weak and I let him stay here while sorts himself out. Thanks for your ESH on this lots of objectivity and clarity. I have helped so much over the years and now I have had my own pace for about six months I have gain serenity and grown alot. I had a talk wi...

Peggy7 · Peggy7

Depression, anxiety and panic attacks are not a sign of weakness. They are signs of having to remain strong for too long. Did you know 1 in 3 of us go through this at some point in our lives? Would you post this on your wall for at least one day? Most people won't but it's Mental Health Awareness Week. S...

Theemettaart · Theemettaart

Hi there, My (twin) sister (quiltytwin) told me about this messageboard, so thanks to my sister! Well as she has written, both our parents are severe alcholics. They are now to that point that they are in a really bad situation. They are (in my opinion) at point of no- return. Well to make a long story sh...

Canyondude · Canyondude

My wife has started going to AA a few weeks ago. The holy spirit compelled her to go. She will hit 30 days sober soon. She has a sponsor and will begin Step 1 soon. She, at times, wants to discuss some of the themes that she is going through. I offered my own 2 cents and every time she says I don't understan...

cky73 · cky73

I had went to a "real life" Al-Anon meeting, and it just wasn't for me. I can't get through a whole meeting without being at the point of tears and people that know me know I am too proud to cry, or at least I try to be numb so I don't cry; it's the only way I really know how to cope. So the internet feel...

Rosie77 · Rosie77

I need to get myself to a face to face meeting. But first I think in my head I need to know at what point or what determines that someone is an alcaholic? Which is probably why I haven't been to a meeting yet. Do I belong there? Am I making a big deal out of nothing? My husband drinks every day. Even more so n...

angiedd · angiedd

Think I need advise on how to handle the arrogance of the dry alcoholic who doesnt attend meetings anymore... ? Im not sure why my husband doesnt attend meetings anymore. Im not even sure if my husband ever had a sponsor like he said he did..? wouldnt the sponsor being contacting him after missing m...

jitsuka · jitsuka

Hi everyone. I'm a grateful member of al-anon. The A in my life is my partner, she's a 'secret' bedroom drinker. Her mum was an A too (sober now, but health is quite damaged). I'm having a pretty stressful time of things really. I started a PhD last year but have just found out that I've not passed the 1st ye...

JJ21 · JJ21

To sum it up quickly. Married 9 years, I left over sneak drinking, he tried to get me back still drinking said no. A year later we both started seeing each other again long distance 5hrs apart so it was weekends. He was thrilled, bought me a new ring and we were working it out or so I thought. He had been l...

sonikk · sonikk

i am very new to this whole process. i have not joined al-anon..am a little apprehensive..can you give me a debriefing on the initial process..who its for, what u do, what is required(timewise, moneywise)??? i completely picked myself and my 2 children up ..moved 300 miles away from my codependant r...

silent · silent

my sis,with the 2 little girls,has robbed me also,i trusted her around my purse with my meds in it that are considered narcotic now that i have to have for my arthritis and joint pain,she took 15 of them from my bottle,just finding this out cause its not the 1st time she has stolen pills from me,i just thou...

silent · silent

ive closed the doors agin toward my sister for how can i find forgiveness in my heart for what she done to her 13 y/o daughter ,my neice out on the feild the otherday ,theres no justifying takeing a 13y/o by the ear and twisting it till the lttle girl hollered out ouch and then hollering out for her 13 y/o to g...

silent · silent

ive been wakeing up past 2 mornings at 3am crying my eyeballs out,missing my daughter and grandbabies,only daughter and grandbabies i have,and i dont ever think ill ever get to share or be with them agin,they been liveing over seas for the last 7 yrs my sil joined airforce back 7 yrs ago,and that was tha...

Pipper · Pipper

Hi everyone my ah just called to tell me he is stopping in the bar on the way home from work and hell be home by 8.i do appreciate the call because usually hell just not answer the phone so that is progress but I still feel very nervous is he going to drink alot tonight? What if he meets someone (my own issue bec...

LeahC · LeahC

Hello, It's been a while since I have made a post. I have alot of frustration pent up that I need to get off my chest. So here I go... My ABF finally got fired from his job. My 2 year old was sick and so I stayed home with her from work. He decided not to go in either. Convenient excuse for him to get out of work sayi...

shaune90 · shaune90

Hi everybody, I just joined this forum 30 seconds ago because i need advice... My mom is an alcoholic and dropped off the deep end about a year ago. Since then I have desperately tried to save her and done everything in my power to no avail. I went to an al anon meeting last night and it opened my eyes to the fa...

suebama · suebama

Here's my situation: I don't live with my A, we're recently divorced. And he's sober, has been for 25 years. He shouldn't still be influencing my life and apparently has moved on with a new gf. So, I "should" be fine, I wanted out of the marriage bc he is a dry drunk and drove me into anxiety...

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	Having trouble with the HP concepts (Preview) I know that Al-Anon is not a religious organization, but I understand that an aknowledgement of a higher power is central to working the program. I do not want this to be a discussion of theological rights and wrongs. I'm trying to understand how I can fit my uncertain perspective of a higher power int...	peppermintnginger	10	555	Aug 28, 2012 by peppermintnginger
	thanks to those who adjust lab reports! (Preview) I am so glad & thankful to those wonderful people who adjust the costs on lab reports. I was pleasantly surprised by the letter I got concerning the bill for my current lab reports to find out what is actually wrong w/ me. I got the letter in the mail on Sat. & was so happy to receive it. This sounds k...	Hoot Nanny	4	394	Aug 28, 2012 by Jerry F
	How to determine if it's alcoholism (Preview) Hi I can't believe I'm the one writing a post about this, but I'm in a pretty bad place trying to figure things out. I think my husband is an alcoholic or at least on his way to be one. We've had a rough few years with infidelity, which happned prior to our 2 kids. This past January he found out the truth and his...	Bailey1218	5	579	Aug 28, 2012 by Oksie
	i am on here as i think hubby is a alcoholic but how much do your other halfs drink or you if its you your on here for (Preview) please, and what do you/they drink	mrs sad and lonely	5	513	Aug 28, 2012 by Oksie
	Practising my detachment. Sitting here. (Preview) I'm sitting here practising my detachment, keeping my boundaries. Step 1. My partner who is the A in my life came home, she popped upstairs. After we put dinner on she was upstairs again. At dinner time she was obviously UI. I hate these times. It seems like every day I am living this perpetual nightm...	jitsuka	3	442	Aug 28, 2012 by jennfire
	Just venting (Preview) I live with my alcoholic sister and my 10 year old niece. I want out more than anything in the world but I can't leave my niece there alone with her mother. I used to feel sorry for my sister and I tried to help her as best I could. She just drinks and lies and nothing changes. All I feel now is disgust and resent...	MadMax	5	369	Aug 27, 2012 by InspiredPhotography
	3 Powerful Words (Preview) I was doing some googling this morning & ran across some writings by a long-time AA member on Step #8 that touched my deeply so I thought I'd share a little. I've worked the 12steps in AA and Al-anon over the years but have discovered that the process never really ends. Having worked the 8th step to t...	Path to Serenity	10	948	Aug 27, 2012 by Jozie
	Alateen (Preview) I have heard that there are is a online session once a week. What time is that? Also I assume that my daughter would have to make up her own name? Or could she use mine and change the nick? I am not sure if she will post much with the fourms. The talking maybe a good thing for her though. Thanks (BTW she is 12 will...	InspiredPhotography	1	287	Aug 27, 2012 by hotrod
	Please help me (Preview) i am mum of tree children, hubby off work due to depression has been yrs, now doesnt take his tablets, he drinkf from afternoon thru til bed sometime late afternoon, he has been known to call sexual lines and run up £1000s on phone bill i keep saying thats it enough now and he says no moe, but i cant get him to...	mrs sad and lonely	16	684	Aug 27, 2012 by InspiredPhotography
	Program & Sponser (Preview) Sorry for all the questions.... Ok so I have started to attend the meetings, what next? I know I need to read books....what about sponser? I am kind of like a 4 year old starting JK and it's my first day of school. Awkward, scared and alittle excited. Help me out? :)	InspiredPhotography	4	299	Aug 27, 2012 by InspiredPhotography
	Is My Life Just Comedy For My HP? (Preview) Well, after finding the empty bottles last Monday my AH developed 'heartburn' and 8 days later and he is having intense pain in his esphogaus. We went to the ER on Sat and they said it wasn't his heart so sent us on our way to go see an internal doc. Well, if he was sour and negative before now it is just ridicu...	TrudyS85	4	483	Aug 27, 2012 by Tracy
	Question (Preview) Can someone still be sick eventhough they have not used or drink in years? How does one completely recover? Does it go deeper then just stopping or quitting?	InspiredPhotography	5	380	Aug 27, 2012 by InspiredPhotography
	Selfishness and the disease (Preview) Reading other posts and thinking of my own situation I am amazed and just blain baffeled by the selfishness of this disease. In the nine years of living with my husband drinking and dry drunking it he always tried to show me affection and concern. He always had a crisis we had to handle but was apprecia...	JJ21	7	824	Aug 27, 2012 by InspiredPhotography
	More wisdom from the Dali Lama (Preview) "To be aware of a single shortcoming within oneself is more useful than to be aware of a thousand in somebody else. Rather than speaking badly about people in ways that will produce friction and unrest in their lives. We should practice a purer perception of them and when we speak of others, spea...	Bettina	1	364	Aug 27, 2012 by hotrod
	minding my own buisness- yup, I'm doin it one day at a time! (Preview) "If I'm over there in someone else's business... who's over here taking care of mine?"- Byron Katie I really loved this quote. To me it shows me how my life can become very unmanagable as soon as I am in someone else's buisness. Alanon and the sayings such as "Stay in your own hula-h...	willowtree	4	432	Aug 27, 2012 by Pushka
	my addicted son (Preview) Hi. I am not sure how to do this except to just jump in. I am a mother of a teenage (19) son who is actively using. He has admitted to my husband and I that he is smoking marijuana and drinking. He has already been to rehab-about 2 years ago and they wanted him to enter into a halfway house and he stayed ther...	catlady379	5	616	Aug 27, 2012 by Jerry F
	Tired of the games (Preview) My ah tells me he doesn't know what he wants somedays he wants to e here other days he wants to move back to ny cause he feels comfortable there in the bars ..he was sober for 19 years and active about 3 now he's turning 50 and retiring from his job end of sept had plans to open his own bus and everything was supp...	Pipper	5	426	Aug 27, 2012 by Jerry F
	Loving a recovering ABF (Preview) My recovering ABF and I have been together for a year and a half. He is a wonderful man and a challenging man. He is about six years sober and worked a very rigorous program including counseling others for the first few years. He does not attend meetings now. We are now in the "dew but not the bloom...	TH	5	505	Aug 26, 2012 by tiredtonite
	How to start believing spouse again? (Preview) The past two years have been the worst dealing with my alcoholic husband and enraged daughter. We both were caught in the lies and deception and my daughter has lost respect for me and my husband. We have done the gamut--had him arrested and jailed three times, court ordered out patient rehab (which...	Donna Lee	22	718	Aug 27, 2012 by Donna Lee
	Not engaging and Not reacting (Preview) So the ex has decided to bombard me with texts today listing all his bills and how he can barely keep up and how he is just throwing everything out of the storage shed. I already told him to do this two months ago and then he conned me into paying it for one more month (when he has more money than me) so he could...	JJ21	3	494	Aug 27, 2012 by InspiredPhotography
	New Here (Preview) Hi there. I am a mother of two beautiful young ladies. My S/O and I have been together for 5 years. He battles depression on an ongoing basis. Although I try to reach him he is very detached. We have good moments but often then not mostly are filled with confusion, pain and tears. I have tried to be a source o...	InspiredPhotography	7	581	Aug 27, 2012 by InspiredPhotography
	I'm so lonely (Preview) My AH is currently in the midst of his second hospitalization for detox in the past six weeks. The first time he went in was mid-July. He was discharged on the 18th and back to drinking by the 20th. I kicked him out of the house and haven't seen him (aside from a few hours on August 5th) since. He is curre...	holivex	8	654	Aug 27, 2012 by InspiredPhotography
	Just Ranting (Preview) So today is my Birthday:) My S/O is working. I know he has breaks inbetween, he hasn't bothered to text me. That is ok :) It would be nice, but not necessary. This am he got up and went right for his phone to check his Facebook. I started to hang up the laundry. He is like what? You aren't going to talk to me? Hon...	InspiredPhotography	3	315	Aug 27, 2012 by InspiredPhotography
	Need new ways of coping when alcoholic husband comes back (Preview) Hello, I am new here and this is my first posting. My husband is a binge drinker and because of the trouble he has caused in the past with family and jobs, etc. he cannot live with the guilt. He can go for months without a drink, but I might say one wrong thing about the past and he is off on a binge again. I ha...	diane99	7	454	Aug 26, 2012 by InspiredPhotography
	What Books Do you Recommend? (Preview) I am not sure what books to start with? My S/O isn't actively drinking, or using. He just has severe depression & some of the behaviours I have read (sounds like he exhibits an addict traits). Does that make sense? So the book Getting Them Sober ~ would I benefit from it? Can I order it online, or woul...	InspiredPhotography	4	529	Aug 26, 2012 by InspiredPhotography
	Online Meetings (Preview) I have seen Online Meetings (email). Can someone explain what it is? What is it for?	InspiredPhotography	4	324	Aug 26, 2012 by InspiredPhotography
	I am in the very begining of being willing to be honest that my fiance is an alcoholic, I really need help! (Preview) Well next month will be 1 yr Kevin and I have been together. We truely feel like soul mates, the one thing I can trust is that we are really in love. In the begining of our relationship one of his best friends (Matt) from high school drove me 300 miles to visit Kevin. What happened was very distrubing and le...	ilovkevin	2	621	Aug 26, 2012 by Kate123
	jealousy towards alcohol. (Preview) Today I feel kind of helpless. My family left afetr 3 weeks visit, and several discussions and adressing problems related to alcohol, for which I'm glad, even though a realize it has been toug hon my parents. I sometimes feel guilty for being the only one speaking up in this family, all the other member...	tortuga	5	684	Aug 26, 2012 by Jerry F
	In need of help (Preview) Hi, Let me make a short introduction here. I'am a young woman who lives togehter with her boyfriend. I am also the daughter of 2 alcohol adicts. Both my parents are alcholics and are really doing bad. (i will not bore you with my difficult history and how they started drinking) Both my parents are i real...	guiltytwin	5	539	Aug 26, 2012 by Breakingfree
	Is there any real help out there for this disease? (Preview) I understand that alcoholism is a disease. I don't understand why in the year 2012 we are relying primarily on a program thought up a century ago. I can see the positive aspects of AA and Alanon, but most of those can be learned through other therapy. The slogans and prayer just remind me of faith healing...	erleichda	22	704	Aug 26, 2012 by Breakingfree
	Am I getting close? (Preview) I'm a newbie and have a lot to learn, but I think I may be picking up on some things, thanks to all y'all: 1. I need to concentrate on myself and not on him, 2. Who my AXH dates and what he does is none of my business and he's probably not as happy as I imagine him to be, 3. My life is worth living without him, 4....	suebama	10	616	Aug 26, 2012 by Breakingfree
	Medications and alcohol (Preview) Hi again, Since things are getting worse with my (our) dad, he has been using pretty heavy medications. He is using Diazepam and Zaldiar ( a medication with tramadol included). Now both mecdications recommend not using any alchol what so ever. I have tried telling my mom about the use of alchol, beca...	Theemettaart	3	481	Aug 26, 2012 by rehprof
	Classic Co-Dependent Move (Preview) Went to a Co-dependents meeting last night and it was a little fun. They are lighter and focus on detachment from our own obsessive thoughts and worrying and needy people, which is a good thing. I was reading the book and the whole time I keep thinking (Oh this would work for so and so) lol. Classic examp...	JJ21	3	450	Aug 26, 2012 by Tigger
	"Words of the Dali Lama" (Preview) "Love is the absence of Judgment". "The best relationship is one in which your love for eachother exceeds your need for each other."	Bettina	6	691	Aug 25, 2012 by hotrod
	TRADITION 9 (Preview) http://stepwork.activeboard.com/p/reply/?topicID=50545019	hotrod	0	325	Aug 25, 2012 by hotrod
	Alanon/AA Meeting (Preview) Went to an Alanon meeting tonight at a center where they also hold AA meetings. I'm in a large city so the meeting are large as well. I found it interesting that the men for the AA meetings were hanging out in front and flirting with all the women going into the Alanon meeting. My, thought was like don't...	JJ21	6	536	Aug 25, 2012 by InspiredPhotography
	Starting arguments out of the blue??? (Preview) Is it me or am I just being tried on or tested by the A? I wake up, i'm happy, because I'm being me. I chat with the A, and in 2 seconds out of the blue, he manges to have turned the conversation on about alcohol, his desire to drink and a final sentence 'you don't respect my feelings, you try to make me sad, you wa...	tortuga	9	746	Aug 25, 2012 by InspiredPhotography
	Confused and Lost (Preview) This is my first time here, so please bare with me. My common law husband is addicted to pain killers for a little more than 3 yrs now. Finally he went to rehab, a 21 day program at an amazing house.He came out positive and seemed to have a new lease on life. He's been home a week and as been acting like he has be...	LMar	5	502	Aug 25, 2012 by InspiredPhotography
	so addicted (Preview) I am ending a relationship I have had for about 5 months. I am so addicted to this guy. I recognise this about me. I have actually been super aware of MY character defects through out. But it hasn't made it any easier. At all. He isnt an alcoholic but he def has issues and isms. And here's why i am so addicted....	freeagain	4	483	Aug 25, 2012 by freeagain
	Appreciation! (Preview) Hi All, I haven't been posting much for quite a while, but I have been reading often. I just wanted to say THANK YOU from the bottom of my heart to the WONDERFUL people on this board. I can't even tell you how much I have learned here and how much you have helped me. It's amazing. We may never know each other'...	Doozy	3	390	Aug 25, 2012 by Jerry F
	Update; New life and trying not to get involved with the exAH and his drama (Preview) So I started school for my RN last week and can see I will have to put all my extra energy into my school work to keep my GPA up to keep my financial aid. The boyfriend and I are doing great and are having many adventures and I finally feel like I am living and out of my head more than ever. My exAH has been strug...	Breakingfree	5	386	Aug 25, 2012 by Debilyn
	Getting through (Preview) ..the next few days is going to be tough. My A is finally leaving, moving back with family. Of course my emotions are all over the place. But right now I'm just trying to get through the next few days. I've tried to get him to start packing, he shows no interest, says he doesn't need anything. For awhile he h...	pineapple	4	345	Aug 25, 2012 by Debilyn
	The Physical Costs of the Disease (Preview) In a weird way, time has proven me to be right about my ex-A. I have always felt judged by his family...as if I was making up the degree to which his behavior was a problem...and his sisters still insist that he is doing okay when they talk to me. Then there is reality. He talked to me briefly the other day abo...	rehprof	4	470	Aug 25, 2012 by Path to Serenity
	my recovery. (Preview) Hi all, i shared how my ex abf has not had a drink for over a weak and I let him stay here while sorts himself out. Thanks for your ESH on this lots of objectivity and clarity. I have helped so much over the years and now I have had my own pace for about six months I have gain serenity and grown alot. I had a talk wi...	Tracy	0	384	Aug 24, 2012 by Tracy
	Mental Health Awareness Week (Preview) Depression, anxiety and panic attacks are not a sign of weakness. They are signs of having to remain strong for too long. Did you know 1 in 3 of us go through this at some point in our lives? Would you post this on your wall for at least one day? Most people won't but it's Mental Health Awareness Week. S...	Peggy7	2	384	Aug 24, 2012 by Hoot Nanny
	This is me (Preview) Hi there, My (twin) sister (quiltytwin) told me about this messageboard, so thanks to my sister! Well as she has written, both our parents are severe alcholics. They are now to that point that they are in a really bad situation. They are (in my opinion) at point of no- return. Well to make a long story sh...	Theemettaart	1	326	Aug 24, 2012 by All I can be
	Should I read the BB? (Preview) My wife has started going to AA a few weeks ago. The holy spirit compelled her to go. She will hit 30 days sober soon. She has a sponsor and will begin Step 1 soon. She, at times, wants to discuss some of the themes that she is going through. I offered my own 2 cents and every time she says I don't understan...	Canyondude	4	521	Aug 24, 2012 by Canyondude
	Well I am trying it here (Preview) I had went to a "real life" Al-Anon meeting, and it just wasn't for me. I can't get through a whole meeting without being at the point of tears and people that know me know I am too proud to cry, or at least I try to be numb so I don't cry; it's the only way I really know how to cope. So the internet feel...	cky73	10	613	Aug 24, 2012 by AStrongerMe
	At what point can you say someone is an alcaholic (Preview) I need to get myself to a face to face meeting. But first I think in my head I need to know at what point or what determines that someone is an alcaholic? Which is probably why I haven't been to a meeting yet. Do I belong there? Am I making a big deal out of nothing? My husband drinks every day. Even more so n...	Rosie77	7	753	Aug 24, 2012 by Wolfie55
	Newbie: How do I handle the arrogance of the dry Alcoholic..?? (Preview) Think I need advise on how to handle the arrogance of the dry alcoholic who doesnt attend meetings anymore... ? Im not sure why my husband doesnt attend meetings anymore. Im not even sure if my husband ever had a sponsor like he said he did..? wouldnt the sponsor being contacting him after missing m...	angiedd	11	3231	Aug 24, 2012 by pinkchip
	Help. Financial worries. Not passed PhD 1st year and really worried. (Preview) Hi everyone. I'm a grateful member of al-anon. The A in my life is my partner, she's a 'secret' bedroom drinker. Her mum was an A too (sober now, but health is quite damaged). I'm having a pretty stressful time of things really. I started a PhD last year but have just found out that I've not passed the 1st ye...	jitsuka	5	607	Aug 24, 2012 by jitsuka
	Why the anger from the ExA (Preview) To sum it up quickly. Married 9 years, I left over sneak drinking, he tried to get me back still drinking said no. A year later we both started seeing each other again long distance 5hrs apart so it was weekends. He was thrilled, bought me a new ring and we were working it out or so I thought. He had been l...	JJ21	7	677	Aug 24, 2012 by orchidlover
	standing on a slippery slope.. but standing..i think (Preview) i am very new to this whole process. i have not joined al-anon..am a little apprehensive..can you give me a debriefing on the initial process..who its for, what u do, what is required(timewise, moneywise)??? i completely picked myself and my 2 children up ..moved 300 miles away from my codependant r...	sonikk	4	384	Aug 24, 2012 by orchidlover
	concerned (Preview) my sis,with the 2 little girls,has robbed me also,i trusted her around my purse with my meds in it that are considered narcotic now that i have to have for my arthritis and joint pain,she took 15 of them from my bottle,just finding this out cause its not the 1st time she has stolen pills from me,i just thou...	silent	2	355	Aug 23, 2012 by orchidlover
	need help here. (Preview) ive closed the doors agin toward my sister for how can i find forgiveness in my heart for what she done to her 13 y/o daughter ,my neice out on the feild the otherday ,theres no justifying takeing a 13y/o by the ear and twisting it till the lttle girl hollered out ouch and then hollering out for her 13 y/o to g...	silent	5	497	Aug 23, 2012 by orchidlover
	so tired of feeling sad (Preview) ive been wakeing up past 2 mornings at 3am crying my eyeballs out,missing my daughter and grandbabies,only daughter and grandbabies i have,and i dont ever think ill ever get to share or be with them agin,they been liveing over seas for the last 7 yrs my sil joined airforce back 7 yrs ago,and that was tha...	silent	6	562	Aug 23, 2012 by Gailey
	Here I go again (Preview) Hi everyone my ah just called to tell me he is stopping in the bar on the way home from work and hell be home by 8.i do appreciate the call because usually hell just not answer the phone so that is progress but I still feel very nervous is he going to drink alot tonight? What if he meets someone (my own issue bec...	Pipper	5	448	Aug 23, 2012 by Pipper
	What happened to rock bottom? (Preview) Hello, It's been a while since I have made a post. I have alot of frustration pent up that I need to get off my chest. So here I go... My ABF finally got fired from his job. My 2 year old was sick and so I stayed home with her from work. He decided not to go in either. Convenient excuse for him to get out of work sayi...	LeahC	3	546	Aug 23, 2012 by Breakingfree
	What to do? (Preview) Hi everybody, I just joined this forum 30 seconds ago because i need advice... My mom is an alcoholic and dropped off the deep end about a year ago. Since then I have desperately tried to save her and done everything in my power to no avail. I went to an al anon meeting last night and it opened my eyes to the fa...	shaune90	4	533	Aug 23, 2012 by shaune90
	Please suggest some reading material for me. (Preview) Here's my situation: I don't live with my A, we're recently divorced. And he's sober, has been for 25 years. He shouldn't still be influencing my life and apparently has moved on with a new gf. So, I "should" be fine, I wanted out of the marriage bc he is a dry drunk and drove me into anxiety...	suebama	9	4810	Aug 23, 2012 by pinkchip
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