@sarahsweets Good for you for standing up for yourself. I am not up to confronting people when I go to meetings like that. I am looking for acceptance.

@Guiness187055 Sorry that biases about mental illness also pushed you out of an anonymous fellowship.

@BirdDancer Thanks for your insights and remarks. I've never been to an AA meeting but I think al anon recruits a different kind of person and my impression is that they are quite judgmental. I felt that this woman had made similar remarks many times in this famly group. It was how she used the exclusive executive "we" vs. the "they" being the mentally ill ones.

I was already sitting out the closing with the Lord's Prayer at the end since it is a Christian prayer from the New Testament and I am not a Christian. I just left the last meeting feeling so alone, isolated and judged.