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1st meeting tonight
Hi everyone
There isn't an ACOA group anywhere near me so I'm going to try AA Family & Friends of Alcoholics. My 1st meeting is tonight, I've been considering it for a couple of years but just plucked up the courage to go, though I am terrified!
I'm going to try this alongside some one on one therapy I've just started.
There's only 1 way to find out but I don't know how much will apply to me. My dad is still an active alcoholic and I'm still in contact with him but I'm at a place where I've pretty much accepted his drinking and now am working on myself and ACOA issues.
Has anyone else been to a similar group as an ACOA? I really don't know what to expect.
There isn't an ACOA group anywhere near me so I'm going to try AA Family & Friends of Alcoholics. My 1st meeting is tonight, I've been considering it for a couple of years but just plucked up the courage to go, though I am terrified!
I'm going to try this alongside some one on one therapy I've just started.
There's only 1 way to find out but I don't know how much will apply to me. My dad is still an active alcoholic and I'm still in contact with him but I'm at a place where I've pretty much accepted his drinking and now am working on myself and ACOA issues.
Has anyone else been to a similar group as an ACOA? I really don't know what to expect.
I posted on the wrong site
Would you guys pop over to Family and Friends of Alcoholics and read my thread...thanks, Bonnie I don't have a clue how to move it....XXxxx
Prayer List……post here.
I thought it might be nice to have one spot that we can look through and send out our thoughts and/or prayers to those family and friends of alcoholics.
Could you please keep my husband and I in your thoughts during the beginning of his recovery. I need the understanding during these days to cope. Thank you.:praying
Could you please keep my husband and I in your thoughts during the beginning of his recovery. I need the understanding during these days to cope. Thank you.:praying
I hope I am not intuding - really want to understand
I have posted many times on the friends of alcoholics forum and I do learn a lot from there but most of the times there are no success stories. I am trying to learn as much about alcoholism because the man I love is an alcoholic.
What I'd like to know are the following, is it true that alcohol is the #1 love in an addicts life?
Is the alcohol worth risking everything you have?
Does an alcholic have to hit "their" rock bottom before they seek help?
What can I do to help without actually enabling?
What I'd like to know are the following, is it true that alcohol is the #1 love in an addicts life?
Is the alcohol worth risking everything you have?
Does an alcholic have to hit "their" rock bottom before they seek help?
What can I do to help without actually enabling?
New Here
Hi, I am new here. Joined this morning. I posted in the Family and Friends of Alcoholics area - and thought I would do a quick posting here.
I have many alcoholics/addicts in my family. Grandfather, father, ex-husband, son (marijuana addict), possibly a couple of nephews, and now the sibling with whom I have always felt the most close to emotionally - I am sure that her drinking has turned into alcoholism. This latest revelation is just crushing me.
I live in a rural area with very few accessible meetings, although I have attended a few. Once fall/winter weather gets into the heavy rain/wind/sometimes snow pattern, I probably will be even more limited as to being able to get to meetings.
So, I am so glad that I found this website.
I know it is purely by the grace of God that I am not an alcoholic - - - and I am grateful for that. But having so many in my family, (two who died as a direct cause of the disease), is so terribly painful. I know I need help to be able to cope with all of this illness around me (as I truly believe alcoholism/addiction is).
And I know I need to work on myself first - so I am here not only for support, but to learn as much as I can about this Family Disease of Alcoholism - so that I can change my thoughts and feelings and not be so distraught about my loved ones.
Thanks for being here.
DL
I have many alcoholics/addicts in my family. Grandfather, father, ex-husband, son (marijuana addict), possibly a couple of nephews, and now the sibling with whom I have always felt the most close to emotionally - I am sure that her drinking has turned into alcoholism. This latest revelation is just crushing me.
I live in a rural area with very few accessible meetings, although I have attended a few. Once fall/winter weather gets into the heavy rain/wind/sometimes snow pattern, I probably will be even more limited as to being able to get to meetings.
So, I am so glad that I found this website.
I know it is purely by the grace of God that I am not an alcoholic - - - and I am grateful for that. But having so many in my family, (two who died as a direct cause of the disease), is so terribly painful. I know I need help to be able to cope with all of this illness around me (as I truly believe alcoholism/addiction is).
And I know I need to work on myself first - so I am here not only for support, but to learn as much as I can about this Family Disease of Alcoholism - so that I can change my thoughts and feelings and not be so distraught about my loved ones.
Thanks for being here.
DL
