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It has only been a few days since I posted on here but it feels like an eternity sometimes. I really need all of you these days. I have still been struggling w/ my mom being in all the meetings I go to. I started to go to a different 12-step program but I fear she will go to that too. I hope I am not stepping out of bounds today. I just feel that I need my own time & my own meeting. By the way, I am thinking about closing my current committment meeting. I am so tired of practically no one showing up!
Last night at the open AA meeting I usually go to my mom was sitting right there when I frustratingly told everyone there that I am sick of my mother getting in the way of my own personal recovery. I am tired of seeing her at every meeting. I was bold enough to say it while she was sittting next to me.
Oh well...I guess I need to say some things that may hurt her or her feelings! Am I wrong to feel this way? I know we can own our feelings. It is not like our thoughts where sometimes we shouldn't think the way we do! Does anyone agree w/ me? Please post whether you agree or not! I need feedback again as usual.
It's ok to be selfish in recovery. What is jumping out at me is who is telling your mom what meetings you will be attending? as in if you go to another program, she will go too. how will she know? for years I gave others all the information and weapons they later used against me. when i sat being hurt, it finally hit me, i was the one telling them Everything and I alone gave the ammunition. try to put the focus on your recovery, not your moms. In my experience, however, Kathleen, lovingly speaking and focusing on me Only. when my mother used to drive me nuts and I used to judge her to no end, I was surprised to find when all the things I saw in her began to heal in me, we got along much better. go figure .. they didn't bother me anymore because they were healed in me. i thought my mother and i were exactly alike; what i realised is we learned to React the same. todayi love her to no end, but it wasn't my doing, it was higher power's grace and healing through many, many meetings and much stepwork .. hang in there .. focus on you if you can ! you deserve your own program. It's much better to take the next right action than to say nothing and waiste the meeting time by giving her all your power. Take care .. Much serenity to you !! Please don't misread my motive in typing this. I recognise much of myself in this and again; my experience only that may or may not bring you a little extra strength and hope. I had to recognise too, if it was good for me to make changes, in truth, it really was good for them too.