Originally Posted by jazzfish

I always find it interested with these types of posts, that the main reaction is to defend AA rather than to look deeper into the OP's issues. My dad has been sober for over 35 years, most of those in AA. He stopped going to meetings and also talked about how it had changed. What had changed was that almost all the friends he made had either gone back out or died. He had a great core group of friends in AA, but just happened to outlive them.

The other big "change" was that as he aged he felt further and further removed from the insights, "hits close to home", and epiphanies of those with far less time than him. He had heard and worked the steps repeatedly, and read the Big Book over and over. I think he honestly just struggled to find room to grow further, and he just didn't have it in him to make new friends again.