She then proceeded to share that the further away that she gets from a drink the closer she gets to the next one, and that we can NEVER recover but always be recovering.
from the preface to the first edition: "to show other alcoholics precisely how we have recovered" .
Alraihani, i read this and was shocked.
my impression of AA was that "they" believed no-one recovered.
when i read that....WOW!!!