Don't want to go to AA alone...
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Join Date: Dec 2005
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one great thing about AA: we are never alone anymore. You already have us here, about 20 people, who will be with you when you walk in that door. we will stay with you during and after the meeting. we willl be here for you when you get home.
you don't have to do this alone.
one great thing about AA: we are never alone anymore. You already have us here, about 20 people, who will be with you when you walk in that door. we will stay with you during and after the meeting. we willl be here for you when you get home.
you don't have to do this alone.
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Join Date: Jul 2007
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I felt the same way when I finally realized I absolutely had to go to AA if I wanted to achieve sobriety. And I got stood up, too, so to speak. It took so much courage to reach out for help and I was actually turned down by two seemingly appropriate AA members I asked for help. And believe me, I don't smell bad, am socially acceptable, a nice person who had a successful professional job - in case any of those things come to mind. Well, against those and other odds, I finally just went! Now it is the better part of 20 years later. I am still sober, thanks only to AA and my Higher Power, One Day at a Time. No way would I have made it without AA. .....and I still don't know why those people acted the way they did ..... and guess what: It doesn't matter.
I do SO understand your wanting that support the first times you walk into the rooms. But please know "if you want what we've got, you'll go to any lengths to get it". That might even mean finding the courage to go by yourself.
Best wishes from the Snowgoose.
I do SO understand your wanting that support the first times you walk into the rooms. But please know "if you want what we've got, you'll go to any lengths to get it". That might even mean finding the courage to go by yourself.
Best wishes from the Snowgoose.
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I'm sorry he didn't vall you back, that sucks - call again! Be honest, say you already tried, you didn't get a call back for whatever reason, can they tell you where the nearest meeting is and can you get the number of someone to meet you outside about 15 mins early? Good luck!!! Well done for keeping on keeping on!!!!
You won't regret it!
Cathy31
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You won't regret it!
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Don’t write negative scripts about why he didn’t call you back. He may have been run over by a bus or something. I suggest calling back or just going on your own. You will be welcomed and loved in AA.
Last edited by Barto; 09-01-2007 at 11:29 AM.
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Well, you know that alcoholic mind -- at least my mind gets creative in a negative way sometimes -- and I might get to thinking that the person really didn’t like me and was a lying all along. Of course my resentment wouldn’t stop there. I’d be blaming AA and the whole world. Then I might find out something like the guy was on a ship that sank and from the last life raft surrounded by sharks he’d been trying to reach me on his cell phone all night but didn’t have enough bars, etc.
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