Star brings up a good point, too. You can "carry the message" here at SR as well as in meetings.
Since I haven't lived with an alcoholic for years and years I quit going to Al-Anon. Now the only meetings I attend are AA meetings, which satisfies my personal need for face-to-face recovery. Those I think I will probably attend for the rest of my life--they do good things for me.
But I also find that lots of what I learned in Al-Anon (detachment and how to allow other people to follow their own paths) has helped me in my AA recovery. Being here on SR gives me that dose of Al-Anon and allows me to share my ESH with others in the same situations I lived through. I mostly post here on the FFA forum at SR--I find that the newcomer threads on the alcoholics side are too "all over the map" for me. AA suits me for my recovery from alcoholism. This forum suits me for my Al-Anon recovery.