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Old 08-05-2008, 10:33 PM   #1 (permalink)
sobergirl77
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Location: Oklahoma
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Burned Out on AA Meetings

I've been attending AA meetings daily since April 16th of this year - sometimes 2 or 3 meetings per day. I've missed maybe 10 days since then. I have had periodic sobriety in that time. Right now I'm going on 24 days which is the longest uninterrupted period of sobriety I've ever had.

Anyway, lately I've been finding myself bored at the meetings I go to. It seems that the longer I manage to stay sober, the less I like the meetings and the less I get out of them. Seriously, the same people say the same things night after night. It's getting to the point that I can predict what they will say. And despite praying before each meeting, I find that I rarely have much to say during the meetings these days either.

Is this normal, to go through periods like this? I've tried other meetings in my city and I guess I can try some others.

But is it OK to not go to meetings every day, but instead go maybe 4 or 5 times per week, so long as you stay sober? I'm just so burned out that I'm beginning to dread going again.

I'm in the process of selecting who I'm going to do my 5th step with right now and still doing steps 1-3 daily as well as taking inventory every single night before I go to bed. And I don't have a sponsor to ask this question to. I've been through 3 sponsors and none of them worked out. There aren't a lot of women around here with quality sobriety that can take on someone new, unfortunately.
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