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I’m an atheist and AA has helped keep me sober for 42 years working the 12 Steps. Just as I accept that I am not the supreme being, it has worked. I find talking and helping other human beings is easier to put into action than believing in some ghost.

Contact your local Al-Anon group. You are powerless over her alcoholism just as she is.

Been sober since 1977. Still basically the same AA, but with different generation. Back then we still had some of the area founding members, and the WWII veterans were inspirational. Every meeting was smoking and you could cut the air with a knife, while sitting in church basements with friable asbe...

If you want to save your soul, go to church, if you want to save your ass, go to AAA. AAA has saved my ass before too! But I am pretty sure you meant AA. Funny story. 50 years ago a woman in our community called AAA trying to reach Alcoholics Anonymous. By the Grace of whatever is Higher, the perso...

If you want to save your soul, go to church, if you want to save your ass, go to AA.

Why?, because it works for some of us. It was the hook. I could not comprehend a lifetime of not drinking, but 24 hours seemed possible. It kept me around long enough to where Step 2 made a little sense. Some of us are real slow to comprehend things. I'm grateful I found a sponsor with compassion an...

up to 42 now. Thank you AA!

I was told early in recovery was if I want to save my soul, go to church. If I want to save my ass, go to Alcoholics Anonymous.

My last drink was on December 24. My first day sober was December 25, 1977. It's pretty simple, Don't pick up the first drink, work the 12 Steps, and be of service to others. It hasn't let me down yet.

I've been hearing this discussion for over forty years, along with how AA is not the way it used to be, Etc., etc.. All I know was when I first showed up to AA, I was one of those addicts. Told I was not welcomed, I didn't belong, go to NA. Of course I was lying out my ass. Drinking was my problem a...

I was sober 10 years when I came down with guillain barre syndrome. The medical profession didn’t know then nor do they know know what causes it. Spent a month in the hospital, the rehab to get my strength back up. It took a good 5 years to fully recover except my equilibrium been messed up since th...

As someone with “decades” of sobriety, I need to hear those early in recovery share their experience, strength, and hope.

The "real" in "real alcoholic" is an adjective. A alcoholic is an alcoholic. real, unreal, total, raging, &%*$ing, or whatever adjective you want to put in there.

I think that you are reaching out here for help in trying to control your drinking is a pretty good indicator that you have a problem with alcohol. My attempts at control (just beer, only vodka, just smoking weed, Etc.,) was a complete failure.

I sobered up when I was 17 years old back in 1977. The only thing not drinking alcohol has kept me from doing all these years is not drink alcohol. Since I quit, I’ve never been arrested again, I’ve never been sent to a mental institution again, i’ve Never overdosed again, nor had to experience the ...