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Old 08-06-2008, 03:41 AM   #5 (permalink)
Tazman53
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Join Date: Nov 2006
Location: Fredericksburg, Va.
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First of all congrats on the time sober.

Number of meetings? Well meetings alone are absolutely not an assurance of staying sober no matter how many you go to, I will say this though, if you go to a meeting it is a time frame during the day that you will not drink! I go to 3 a week, sometimes 4.... do I need to go to them? Yes..... mainly to continue to show hope to the newcomers that one can stay sober and to make sure that the hand of AA is always there when some one needs it.

I would suggest a couple of things to try:

1. Go to different meetings.

2. When a topic of discussion is asked for, give one. Before you go to a meeting decide what you would like to hear discussed. Why not bring up the very topic of this thread "Burned Out on AA Meetings". I can assure you you will hear a wide variety of replies and reasons.

Meetings alone are only a part of the program. Possibly you could focus on making womens meetings. Another thing you may want to do is to ask if anyone would like to do some road trips. We do these sometimes, a group of us picks one day out of the week, find meetings in other towns, pile into a car, go out to breakfast, hit an early meeting out of town, drive to another town, stop to eat again and go to another meeting. This lets every one get to know each other and see how AA works in other areas.
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