I've just had some more thoughts about the meeting today. The woman who talked with us after the meeting was so impressed by DH for coming with me to the meeting, and suggested Al-Anon to him. He seemed receptive and I was surprised by that. Anyway, she also kept going on about how all alcoholics are selfish and how selfish she can be etc etc. I realise now that rubbed me the wrong way because while I know
in theory lol that all alcoholics are selfish, one of my justifications for drinking has always been that I'm so busy doing things for other people (my parents, my husband, my stepson, and most recently my own child) that I 'deserve' a break, to relax with a glass of wine which inevitable turns into a bottle. So I think she was actually threatening to my AV, the one who spouts off all that baloney to me toget me to take a drink against my better judgment. I'll be going to that meeting again for sure. Luckily it meets every weekday at the same time.
