In my experience the only people who truely understand addiction are addicts, and the only people truely understanding recovery are recovered addicts. That is why i'd recommend AA.
Don't expect understanding or support from people who do not know the beast we are fighting, especially not the people we have hurt and affected in our addiction.
I am lucky to have a few people close to me who support my recovery, but even they do not understand and I do not expect them to. I try hard to seperate what to expect and discuss with these relatives and what to expect and discuss with my AA people, because i lot of things normal people will just never be able to relate to, no matter how close these people are to you.