[-Astral-]

i think am going to AA for the wrong reasons i go there for about 2 weeks and then i leave am fine most of the time and have no cravings but then something stressful happens and i want to drink
when am at AA i feel like i want them to solve all my problems with my mental health and with my life ...i really dont need AA at all my husband says because i keep going back and forward there

not been to aa for a while wanting to go back for the wrong reasosns

[PumpkinPieHead]

What do you think are the wrong reasons?

I like AA! I used to go kinda regularly. I haven't ever really had a drinking problem, but it lifted me spirits.

[Moogieotter]

No one minds at all. Its cool.

[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. Plus, as Moogie pointed out, it's not really that big a deal for most folks.

[leejosepho]

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...

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.