when do you give up an walk away?

[JayhawkSD]

14. Pretty much why I quit going to AA

Meetings were full of people who professed to be drug addicts, family members of alcoholics, adult children of alcoholics and codependents. They were talking about things they had discussed in Al-Alanon meetings, in ACOA meetings, etc and were seldom reminded that they were currently in an AA meeting.

I couldn't relate to them. My father was an alcoholic, sober nine years when he died, so I guess technically I was at the time the adult child of an alcoholic and qualified for Al-Anon, but I wasn't dealing with those issues. I was dealing with a drinking problem, and listening to someone talking about their codependency issues didn't help.

And yes, these were supposedly closed meetings. Closed meetings were available to anyone who had "an addiction or dependency problem."

AA certainly helped me, and I've been sober 35 years now, but it isn't offering me much that I find supportive these days.