I wish I could say my AH is new to AA, but he has been in and out of meetings for YEARS. I lost track but I think it has been 8 years now. His longest period of sobriety that I am aware of is 6 months. During that period he encouraged me to go to Al-anon. I wish I would have started going way back then (about 2 years ago). Now that he sees the change in me he seems not so thrilled with it. I agree he could be making things up about AA members bashing Al-anon. He lies, and he manipulates like the best of them so I get this may not be truth, but felt the need to put it out here to see what others thought or had experience with it.