Quit AA/still sober

So, about 2 months ago I stopped going to AA. I didn't intend for it to be permanent but I have decided it is. I'm totally burnt out on meetings, blah blah blah. I'm still sober. I just need to get on with life...and aside from staying sober AA hasn't helped with much else. I can stay sober...I need to get on with getting the rest of my life together. If I ever decide I need it I can alway go back to meetings. I don't forsee going back to meetings but things happen so it might happen in the future.

Cool. Nively done!

In statistics, AA claims that only about 5% of folks in the program stay sober. I've always thought that number might be artificially low because people like yourself, who get sober, stay sober & quit going to meetings, aren't accounted for. Quitting the program hasn't worked for me in the past, but everyone's different.

I would guess that is true for many people, and whether you can stay sober either with or without meetings can help determine whether you need the original A.A. experience few people have ever heard much of anything about. It is the "everything else" that the original A.A. is actually about.

Are you certain those numbers are being reported by AA? In any case, the original A.A. shared something much different:

"Of alcoholics who came to A.A. and really tried, 50% got sober at once and remained that way; 25% sobered after some relapses, and among the remainder, those who stayed on with A.A. showed improvement. Other thousands came to a few A.A. meetings and at first decided they didn't want the program. But great numbers of these -- about two out of three -- began to return as time passed." (Foreword to Second Edition)