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Originally Posted by emgreen
I don't know what the wrong reasons would be other than not having a desire to stop drinking. That's the only requirement to be at a meeting. You don't have to be an alcoholic, but if you want to stop, you belong...
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Actual group membership is for alcoholics only, of course, but that matter can be addressed later on...so yes, I agree as to there being no such thing as a wrong reason for coming to a meeting whenever anyone anywhere has a desire to stop drinking -- a desire to recover is the same thing (see Tradition Three) -- or to at least learn more about alcoholism possibly being someone's problem and how alcoholics truly can recover. I have heard people say A.A. did not work because they had wanted it for wrong reasons, but that has never made any sense to me. If I have a problem and go see someone with a solution and then end up getting well, who could possibly even care about "Why?" I did that? I came to A.A. in 1981 so my two young daughters would not soon have to bury a drunken father they had never really even known, and now that has since worked out quite well for all of us.