My dad was an alcoholic just about all my life i think, he past away in 1996. I never really thought he effected my life as much as he did. I recently started going to a therapist and she wants me in an alanon group. im really not sure what to expect from this or how it will help me. if any of you can help me understand what tis is all about and all that jazz id really appreciate it.

Hi, Sinderella! Welcome to the forums.

The best way to get started is to join a meeting and see what it's like. I'd recommend looking for either an Al-Anon or Adult Children of Alcoholics meeting near you (a face-to-face meeting). However, we do have a lively and friendly Al-Anon email meeting here at the Online Alano Club. You're welcome to subscribe. Post here, or send me a private message if you'd like to do that. (I'm the listkeeper.)

For worldwide Al-Anon meetings, you can find listings at the primary Al-Anon web site: http://www.al-anon.org. Or, for online Al-Anon, go here: http://www.ola-is.org.

Dean

im also new to this my exhusband is an alcoholic and our family suffers greatly from this im not sure how this works if someone could help me i would be very thankful i also would like to know how i can cha with other people in my similar situation




mollyblu

Hi, mollyblu!

Here at the Online Alano Club there is a great and supportive Al-Anon email meeting. It's quite active. I'm certain you would be welcome. Give it a try. It's easy to unsubscribe if you don't like it.

You can subscribe here: http://www.onlinealano.org/cgi-bin/mj_wwwusr

Or send me a private message or email with your email address and I'll help get you subscribed. (Don't post your email address here. The spammers will harvest it.)

Dean

I am new to this (one day) and am bothered at the lack of responses. Perhaps I am not working this right. I'll assume tha later. I also see a therapist and he suggested this online service. It took me all day just to figure out how to get on line. The writer above does not know what to expect from this. Unfortunately that makes two writers who have no idea. I have been an AA and NA for over 20 years and have only been clean since August 10th of 2005. I certainly need help in my endeavour to stay clean and I imagine this is what this forum is for. I hope other writers who have many additional years of experience will write in and share their viewpoints so that we may learn and stay clean. Right now I could be labeled confused and chaotic in Woodstock, New York.

Hi Confused, . When I finely went to AA it was a matter of survival of the fittest. Did I want to die? Or did I want to live?
after I decided I wanted to live, the rest fell into place. That decsion ment I had to work hard to learn the 12 steps, to practice them and learn how to live sane and sober. But most of all, I needed GOD!
A good sponcer is alot of help also.
I am also alittle dissipointed with the lack of responce on this site.

So I'm new to this site also. I have only been sober for about 4 weeks. The way it looks so far, not many people continue their efforts on this site. It was hard finding a recent post! I will give this a whirl tho. I chose online chat AA just for the simple fact that I live in a small town where everyone knows everyone and would rather not sit in an AA meeting with say, my neighbor....I have been an alcoholic for 5+ years, and has led my entire life down the drain. I am now trying to rebuild my life, and by that I mean starting with the first brick. Alcohol has honestly burried me.
So I hope to meet some interesting people with somewhat things common to my own. If not, I hope to just meet people and chat about the issues at hand.
Good luck to you all!

Hi all-I'm new to this group-but not new to the AA program. I have 8 years in recovery. I too attend both AA, and NA. My heart lies within AA, but I attend NA for several reasons. One of my sponsees chairs one of the meetings, and others attend them, and I just want to support anyones recovery efforts in my community. I live in a community where we have many people in recovery, and it's wonderful. I do believe in the 12-steps, and live them daily. A brief history. My husband is in recovery as well and has had several slips. He is now working the program the way it should be worked-reading the big book, got a sponsor, goes to meetings and now chairs one. I had to learn that I couldn't take his inventory for him-tough thing for a wife!! He is nearing his 1 year sobriety birthday-one day at a time! . Six months out of recovery ourselves, we put our son in treatment (age 15). We are a family that works the recovery program! I've come to realize that I also need that part of the program to balance out my life. I have come to realize that my Mom was an acolohic, and living with an alcoholic husband, I have come to realize that there are areas I need to deal with through alanon. I hope this group can grow-there's such a need. The program works if you work it-believe me-I've lived it. I pray daily for those in the program, and those who are still suffering. Take care, don't give up, and God Bless.