Thank you so much Taz for your thoughts. I am so glad your daughter is in treatment. My parents confronted me in the past about my ED but never did anything about it, and once I learned to hide it they decided to believe my deception.
I am also very afraid of going to AA and seeing someone I know there - like someone who works at my work or lives in my neighborhood - and my facade of being functional cracking.
I'm afraid of telling my husband that I am going to AA - because then it seems serious, then it seems real. And permanent.