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Wow great stuff. Next time I am asked the question " Do you think AA is still working as well as it used too," I have an answer. It will go like this "From the people I correspond with in Iowa it certainly is." Thank you so much for your input.

Sounds like your open to what ever works for you when you need results. And, as we all know, we can argue the method but we can't argue the results. Thank you for your insight and input.

Hi Alibaba, I had problems with my first sponsor and I was early in my sobriety. I left it too long and it became a problem. I would terminate the arrangement kindly and quickly and think very carefully of what you want before choosing another. Nobody in AA can tell you how to achieve sobriety, eve...

This is my second post { re: topic selection] on this forum since I joined a short time ago. Just to clarify, I joined this forum, because it offered me an opportunity to ask questions that are important to me regarding my sobriety as well as questions that would give my-self a better concept of AA ...

"And it's hard to think outside the box when the culture I was raised in provides all my ideas and vocabulary! " So true. What I was taught as a child in the society I was born into didn't serve me much purpose in my adult life. So upon entering AA and being confronted with new informatio...

D'oh wrote: ↑Sat Feb 29, 2020 9:09 pm Basically!

I Can't

AA Can!

Members carry the Message.

Then I found their Message is from a Higher Power than them

"Most Good ideas are simple" The Big Book of Alcoholics Anonymous. And, that idea of yours fits into that philosophy. Thanks for your input.

I believe my higher power provides a road map but the legwork is up to me. That sounds like an interesting analogy Layne. Does each person have a different road map and if so how does one know how too read and navigate it? I have no idea about anyone else and their map, but I navigate mine through ...

"And it's hard to think outside the box when the culture I was raised in provides all my ideas and vocabulary! " So true. What I was taught as a child in the society I was born into didn't serve me much purpose in my adult life. So upon entering AA and being confronted with new informatio...

Layne wrote: ↑Fri Feb 28, 2020 8:52 am I believe my higher power provides a road map but the legwork is up to me.

That sounds like an interesting analogy Layne. Does each person have a different road map and if so how does one know how too read and navigate it?

Good question sobeguy27. I signed on to this forum for the purpose of getting some food for thought regarding my sobriety. I get up every morning at 7 am and spend 3 or so hours studying AA and related literature asking myself “What does that mean and how does it pertain to me in terms of my sobriet...

And yet here I am, sober. And thousands more atheists and agnostics with no "god", still sober through AA. Either that means (1) us agnostics are all doomed to fail, or (2) that the Big Book was written by one guy with three years sobriety who thought God was his answer, and maybe we shou...

This is from power of NOW: The word God has become empty of meaning through thousands of years of misuse. I use it sometimes, but I do so sparingly. By misuse, I mean that people who have never even glimpsed the realm of the sacred, the infinite vastness behind that word, use it with great convicti...

Alibaba33 wrote: ↑Wed Feb 26, 2020 4:24 pm Thank you all for your advice. A temporary sponsor would be great if that is an option on here please.

May I suggest if no one offers to sponsor you on-line on this thread in the next while try starting a new thread with that specific question and request. Good luck ,

When you said “Sometimes I think I haven't been totally beaten by this disease and need to go back out and be totally beaten into surrendering to this” you just described the mental obsession perfectly. Well done.

You sure do sound like you have a solid foundation for your sobriety and a good head on your shoulders. I have read all the responses to your post and everyone of the sounds solid. They all basically point to the fact that you should most definitely relieve her of her "ASSUMED" duties. As ...