View Poll Results: how many meetings do you attend per week ?
6 or more per week
29
7.55%
3 to 5 per week
82
21.35%
1 to 2 per week
68
17.71%
only occasionally
44
11.46%
never
161
41.93%
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how many 12 Step Meetings do you attend ?
Left the bottle behind 4/16/2015
Join Date: Dec 2011
Location: NC
Posts: 1,416
I average 4/week, sometimes 5 if there's a speaker meeting. Aside from the effect of keeping me focused on my recovery, the groups I frequent have become like family. That's important to me because I really have no family right now. There is a fundamental understanding of each other in the rooms that is often unspoken. But just like with any other family dynamic, there are some members you love to be around, and others you just tolerate. We're still only human. 
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Join Date: Jun 2013
Location: Pueblo, Colorado
Posts: 26
I think I average between 3 and 5 per week, but some weeks I'll hit more and some less. My work schedule seems to drive when I can get to some meetings. I'm fortunate that there are around 50 meetings per week around our city so I have a lot of choices. Sometimes the personalities of the rooms drive which one I attend. My early morning home group meetings have gotten more negative lately, so I tend to drive across town to a non-cussing meeting.
Left the bottle behind 4/16/2015
Join Date: Dec 2011
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Originally Posted by TroyM 
My early morning home group meetings have gotten more negative lately, so I tend to drive across town to a non-cussing meeting.
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Join Date: Apr 2013
Location: Lakeside, Ca
Posts: 10,208
My home group meets in a church building and in the readings each day they ask for those to not use profanity yet some although not drinking just seem to never be able to follow directions.
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Originally Posted by Carlotta
I have one meeting I love lined up for each day of the week but schedule changes happen and I have been known to take a nap or get "lost" at the bookstore so I put 3 to 5 but truthfully my average is closer to 6 these days
Ps: it's not that I am so wonderful, I am just lucky that my home group meets 5 times a week and is just 3 blocks away from my house LOL
Ps: it's not that I am so wonderful, I am just lucky that my home group meets 5 times a week and is just 3 blocks away from my house LOL
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Join Date: Apr 2013
Location: Lakeside, Ca
Posts: 10,208
Sunday
God willing and the creek don't rise
I will be hitting my home group meeting tomorrow morning.
Helps to keep me centered.
And never to forget how it was.
What happened.
And how it is now.
A nice sober day wished for all,
M-Bob
God willing and the creek don't rise
I will be hitting my home group meeting tomorrow morning.
Helps to keep me centered.
And never to forget how it was.
What happened.
And how it is now.
A nice sober day wished for all,
M-Bob
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Join Date: Apr 2013
Location: Lakeside, Ca
Posts: 10,208
Originally Posted by Kris47
Birdies or hummers?
Hit my homegroup meeting this morning.
That's what I do.
I keep coming back.
A nice sober evening wished for all,
M-Bob
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Join Date: Jan 2014
Location: Northern Michigan
Posts: 28,801
Originally Posted by Mountainmanbob
Birdies eating and hanging out all over the place here at our home. They can go through feed pretty fast. The wife and I are very grateful that we have the monies to feed the many critters here.
Hit my homegroup meeting this morning.
That's what I do.
I keep coming back.
A nice sober evening wished for all,
M-Bob
Hit my homegroup meeting this morning.
That's what I do.
I keep coming back.
A nice sober evening wished for all,
M-Bob
It is like therapy and meditation. Adds well to the meetings and everything else.
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Join Date: Apr 2013
Location: Lakeside, Ca
Posts: 10,208
how many 12 Step Meetings do you attend ?
Well, it's Thursday and the wife and I just got back from vacation yesterday.
We were up in Idyllwild for a few days and we got to visit some old AA friends of ours.
I get to hit one out of town AA meeting while up there.
Now first full day back in town and I think it to be best to check in with my home group AA meeting on this morning.
Why ?
Because this sober thing mixed with AA meetings and church has been working for a long time now.
Don't stop doing what you have been doing that helps you (us) to stay sober.
A nice sober day wished for all,
M-Bob
We were up in Idyllwild for a few days and we got to visit some old AA friends of ours.
I get to hit one out of town AA meeting while up there.
Now first full day back in town and I think it to be best to check in with my home group AA meeting on this morning.
Why ?
Because this sober thing mixed with AA meetings and church has been working for a long time now.
Don't stop doing what you have been doing that helps you (us) to stay sober.
A nice sober day wished for all,
M-Bob
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Join Date: Apr 2013
Location: Lakeside, Ca
Posts: 10,208
4:12 AM on Monday morning.
Guess I'll try to get to an AA meeting this morning.
Been a while and a few AA friends are wondering where I am.
A nice sober day wished for all,
M-Bob
Guess I'll try to get to an AA meeting this morning.
Been a while and a few AA friends are wondering where I am.
A nice sober day wished for all,
M-Bob
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