Who can share at meetings?
I could use some advice and experience about who can share at an open meeting, in terms of accumulated tradition. Apparently there is a person who has stopped attending the AA meeting I go to because she is not an alcoholic. She is an Al-Anon person, and I am given to understand she was in the habit of "preaching" to the alcoholics, and something happened - she was asked not to come or something.
Now, ostensibly, ours is an "open meeting".
What is people's experience and what is your advice about handling people who attend AA meetings but are not alcoholics themselves? Are they told in some way; is something read or included in the introductory section of meetings, or are there rules about the topics one can share about?
We were going around and around about this at the business meeting today, and we left it at "We'll do some research about AA traditions and experience, and reconsider the matter at the next meeting".
I'll be happy to consider what anyone has to say about this. Thanks in advance.