Originally Posted by
Bernadette 
I have met so many people who get hung-up or offended by what they they can only perceive as the religiosity of the concept of a HP... often these people abandon AlAnon because of it - and I feel sad that they miss out on the bigger picture - on the concept - because they get so hung up on insisting that having an HP means bowing to some religious idea.
I wasn't exactly hung up on it, but really having it click yesterday make the steps make so much more sense now.
Originally Posted by
Bernadette So my HP was my cat for a while!!!
LMAO, one of our cats certainly thinks she qualifies as a HP! The rest of us disagree.