"believe the recovering friends in here like Tazman because they, unlike my Jay, are in TRUE recovery,"
Got to second that, hbb! Much of my new understanding about this disease comes from all the wonderful people who post about their recovery experiences over on the Alcoholism board. And I love it when they provide insight on this board.
Interesting that XABF thinks he is too special to attend AA because he doesn't want to associate with all those alkies who have been ordered to AA and have to sign in. He seriously told me the ONLY meeting he would consider attending would be George Bush's! And yet, when you read about recovering As' experiences with AA, they often say that they thought they were going to be outsiders initially only to discover everyone at AA had been thinking, saying and doing the same things! And, as I reminded XABF, the people who run the meetings aren't signing in....they are there because they know the programme works! Service!!!
ARL