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Old Nov 27, 2016, 05:01 PM
leejosepho leejosepho is offline
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Originally Posted by emgreen View Post
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...
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.
Thanks for this!
kecanoe, RichardJ