Re: Dro you know the 12 steps are reworked

Popoe --

The problem with long-term sobriety is that complacency arises in subtle and cunning forms. Life gets really OK for a while and your friend probably just drifted away from that place of urgency that keeps so many of us close to meetings for the first few or several years.

No offense to your friend at all, but from my experience she should step up the spiritual side of her program. i.e. take inventory, pray and meditate, and most important, help other alcoholics. I'd be willing to bet that is not the primary purpose of her life these days around AA. I said this in another post -- this is not sniping at your friend or meant to be judgmental -- just commentary based on my observation that if I stop working with other alcoholics, I feel disconnected. If I feel disconnected, I feel isolated. If I feel isolated from others, I am isolated from God. God is everything to the alcoholic, or nothing. If God is nothing, that is the state of being where alcohol is essential.

23 years and thinking of drinking is a much more terrible place to be than 23 days and having the compulsion to drink...I hope she gets help from other AAs and helps other drunks, too! The disease has progressed in her body by now, and it is even harder for women than for men -- so she will have a terrible time of it if she drinks again.

Best.

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