Originally Posted by GracieLou

Everyone has their own story and your bottom is never the same as someone else's.

There are also different types of bottoms. Emotional, loss of family or loss of ones self and then the physical, lost of jobs, DUI etc.

The idea in AA is to identify with another alcoholic, not to compare or judge ourselves as different. If all we did was look for the things that are different, such as bottoms or resentments, then we could do that all day long and all that does is separate us.

It is not how much I drank or what resentments I have, it is what alcoholic did to me and my life. If you have a desire to stop drinking, then you are a member in AA if you say so.

Let them worry about them and you worry about you. Remember that not everyone in AA is recovered, there are many in the rooms that are still sick. We just have to love each other were we are, not where we think others should be or what they may say.