Originally Posted by
sweetichick 
While I appreciate your argument, I still disagree. That was written nearly 80 years ago and science hasn't proved it. Just more AA gobbledygook and they wonder why people don't stay.
What works for so many people can't really be 'gobbledygook' can it?
Sweetchick - there are people who have found lifetime sobriety in AA. And you are standing on the side-lines, drinking every day on top of an ulcer, and criticising it without ever being willing to try to go through the AA steps. Why not put the cynicism aside for a few months - really embrace the AA steps, sponsor and meetings and then tell us how you are getting on when trying to make it work (instead of always finding excuses why not to try it properly, while finding excuses or 'reasons' to drink every day). And yes, perhaps if you drink 2-3 bottles of wine each night with your friends, then perhaps that advice from AA that it would be better to let go of those friends for a while and go to meetings instead would help you. Your friends may not drink at all, but they are also not stopping you drinking large and harmful quantities of alcohol daily.
You haven't been able to find something that works for you so far. Why not, for a little time, let other people guide you? Or at least come up with an alternative definite plan. Having no money left (which you say will give you day 1) isn't going to be any form of basis for sobriety. Alcoholics will always get more money at times, and without any real plan they will always spend at least some of that new money on booze.
Please - be prepared to be helped, and not just on your own terms (which clearly aren't working for you).