Hi Nancy
Welcome to SR
No we're not an AA board, tho we do have many AAers here.
I've never been to AA so obviously AA is not the only way to recover, but it is the one a lot of people choose, so there must be a reason for that.
Did you try another meeting?
I don;t know how much of this resonates with you, but I remember feeling a little unique when I first came here - it took me a while but I finally realised it didn't matter that I'd never had a DUI, or bashed my wife, or neglected my kids or ended up in jail or whatever
I was just lucky perhaps - but I was every bit 'the drunk' that anyone else here was...
I started to move forward when I realised my pride was working against my recovery and whatever my differences, my problem was something we all have in common....alcoholism.
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