Originally Posted by
lillamy 
I've never been in AA but that sounds like fishy advice to me.
Here's how the reasoning would have gone if your brother is anything like the As I know:
"I need to be able to communicate with my ex-wife in order to explain to her why I had to drink. That's important for my recovery. Since I can't have that, since the courts are preventing me from having that, I won't be able to recover. Where's the bar?"
ugh^^^hate to say it, but this resonates with me, SoulLight.
Things *might* be different as far as communication between them goes if it weren't for that pesky NO CONTACT ORDER.
There must be very good reasons that is in place, and I agree that any violation of that is most likely boundary-pushing behavior from someone who is not really working an honest recovery program.
But you know your brother better than we do...what's your take?