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salvie


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Hi! I'm reading "How Al-Anon works" now. I part two "Al-Anon experiences", chapter 5 "A dual member copes with his mother's drinking" he tells :" I have been sober for 30 years".

But later he tells:" After 13 years of sobriety, 13 years of Twelve Step experience, I had to start all over."

Help me to understand why he tells different about his sobriety term?! 

My friend works with the translation of this book to Russian. So it's very important.

 



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Welcome to Miracles in Progress Salvie I am so happy that you have the literature and a friend who is helping to translate the information.

I do not have the book but in reading the excerpt that you presented , I believe that in the first sentence his statement reflects the number of years in sobriety he NOW has and that when he found alanon years before and needed to address his Mother's drinking he had only 13 years sobriety . It was then that he had to start all over learning the 12 Steps, from an alanon perspective.

The way I read it he has 30 years in AA and 17 years in Alanon.
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Thank you!!!



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well together they are 26 years?

I was confused in a way also. I believe Betty has the answer...whew thank you betty.

Al anon is different as we are learning to deal with someone else who has the disease, other than our own disease.  hugs~

 



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Hi, Salve: I do have the book and I read what you read. Could be he is meaning that he's been in AA for 30 years overall and started his Al-Anon recovery when he was 13 years sober with 13 years of 12 Step work in AA for a total of 17 years as Betty says in Al-Anon and 30 years in AA. I get the impression from the read that the author recognized after 13 years of AA, that he needed more or he wouldn't stay sober so he also entered the rooms of Al-Anon and both together have helped him grow?

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thanks for your help, friends! Thank you Betty, Debilyn, grateful2be!!!

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