Originally Posted by
tomsteve 
meeting makers make meetings.
meeting makers that work the program,then practice the prinicples in all their affairs recover from the hopeless state of mind and body that made them drink and dont drink again.
there was a time i lived that fear based program- the thought that if i missed meetings id drink again. i am very glad old joe showed up and helped me read what THE program is.
on this:
someone relapsed because they got a resentment at the meeting and stopped going to meetings and drank.
they didnt drink because they stopped going to meetings. they drank because they didnt treat the resentment.
Never forget that resentment is a deadly hazard to an alcoholic
Peopel often say the stoppped going to meetings. But they fail to mention they stop with the disciplines of 10 and 11 and stop helping others and step 12. Many people say this an excuse to sop going to meetings is that they drank again.