My story is a little different, but just to give you a clue as to what I did in early recovery (from codie-ness and addiction).
I threw myself into work, I spent time with family, worked, I spent a gazillion hours on SR, learning how to improve myself. Working his recovery IS important, but it doesn't mean you shut the world out to get it.
This may be the first time that he's realized that you've had it. He hasn't been present in a LONG time. Recovery can come from all kinds of places. AA is one of them. True recovery is finding balance between working the recovery and being a r a responsible person who learns who to live life. Being sheltered by overdosing on AA doesn't give him the opporunity...it shuts out everything, and it prevents him from
good for stating your mind!
hugs and prayers,
Amy