I think all we can do is create a nice space for people to return to when they are ready (HUG)
I know I have worried many people at SR over the years when I would go away for long periods of times. But I always came back. I'm sure Steely will return and I would bet that Poppy, Plenny, Kev and others will at some point start looking at the thread and decide to come back. If not, we will continue. I'm glad LSW is still checking in and hope I can get to know her better.
In past sober runs I have let others leaving become a long drunk. This sobriety I seem to be able to not go that direction. I think the fear of abandonment and the taking a leaving as personal run deep in many of us. Alchohol was just a way to seal myself off from people so that wwouldn't happen. Today I can't see that as a solution. And in time people come in and out of threads, meetings, and lives.
That said , like I said, I feel fairly certain that some of our good friends will return.
Hang in their !
