Old 07-16-2011, 05:42 PM
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LifeRecovery
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Al-anon is for friends and family of alcoholics.

AA is for the individual with alcohol problems. With that said though there are many types of AA meetings (step groups, open meetings, topic etc). I live in a small community and go to many Open AA meetings (you do not have to have a problem with alcohol to go to those).

I go to both types of meetings but for different reasons. I go to Al-anon to learn about me and my choices in this disease. I go to Open AA meetings to learn about the disease of alcoholism and frankly because bearing witness to so much recovery helps me to have hope. In general I share at Al-anon and listen at the AA meetings but that is just me.
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