How I Got Involved with A.A. - and What I've Concluded About It
Long before I attended my first meeting at Alcoholics Anonymous, or knew anything about it's teachings or practices beyond what I had seen on screen - people sitting in church basements, and the phrase "I'm Bob, and I'm an alcoholic", the one thing I did know is what everyone knows as common knowledge: that A.A. is the one and only program proven to actually work. My intuition picked up one there being something not quite right about it - but when my drinking reached a tipping point, I figured it couldn't hurt. My therapist, a former member, suggested 90 meetings in 90 days. This seemed far to intense a commitment to begin with my very first meeting, so I decided to get a feel for it, going to meetings on and off again at most once a week. The people were very nice, and very encouraging, but an alarm bell went off when I realized that the "I'm Bob and I'm an alcoholic" was used in a different way than I had thought. I had thought that th