I'm not a big fan of One Day at a Time.
I feel that it is an excellent text for someone who has chosen to stay and is looking for some help with acceptance and detachment. These skills are ESSENTIAL for sanity when sharing your life with an alcoholic.
However, as I'm choosing not to share my life with an alcoholic, I like the readings in Courage to Change much more.
I feel like it has a better bent toward MY recovery and MY issues instead of acceptance of HIS issues and patience with HIS progress.
Depends on what you're looking for - everyone's path is different and requires different tools. If ODAT's tools don't work well for you, there's no shame in that. Maybe open another box?
-TC