Originally Posted by
AVRT 
I suppose the question people need to ask themselves is: has meeting attendance become a pre-condition for abstinence? Has it become part of your Addictive Voice? I sometimes still hear my Addictive Voice telling me "well, we haven't gone to meetings in 'X' amount of time, we are on thin ice. Just a matter of time before we cave."
In my own, perhaps inept way, AVRT, that was exactly what I was trying to say. Getting social support is one thing, and is in fact exactly what we, ourselves, are doing here.
But when you start thinking that the meetings are actually CAUSING your sobriety, so that indeed the meetings become a precondition for staying sober, then yes, that is nothing more than the voice of the Beast.