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Originally Posted by eskielover
Ah, expectations will always do us in. Mixed with alcohol.....never a good combination.
Only family I have left is my daughter & 3rd & 4th cousins I never got together with even when family was alive. I keep in contact a little on FB but would never consider getting together IRL.
You actually didn't do bad given the circumstances. Would have been difficult to respond differently. I personally wouldn't do ALANON for people I seldom see even if family
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I found Al-Anon a good place to learn some important principles that apply to all relationships. I started attending meetings and reading their literature a very long time ago, when my sig. other was drinking so much he couldn't live responsibly. He couldn't keep a job. Being with him when he drank made me miserable. After I distanced and detached, he got very sick. Then motivated him to stop drinking. He stopped, and we became close again. I always intended to continue learning in Al-Anon.