Originally Posted by
zrx1200R 
This is an excellent question. I've wondered the same. My AW is going to 3+ meetings a day. She doesn't work. She's using the cover of the meetings to drink. She often goes straight from the meeting to the liquor store. The deceit is now a complicated web of lies.
My husband was just like this when he attended AA and in retrospect he says it was in large part because it was not a programme which was working for him. It left him feeling helpless, which upset him and made him want a drink, along with telling him he was powerless about the "need" which gave him the excuse he needed.
Have you talked to her about trying a different treatment path? AA is just one of many options. And as Franklin D Roosevelt said "It is common sense to take a method and try it. If it fails, admit it frankly and try another. But above all, try something."