Help needed - Al-Anon Family Group

brownie · Member

Help needed

rtexas · ~*Service Worker*~

((((Brownie))))

You are not alone, and you are in the right place. He has stopped drinking, but is he participating and any type of recovery.... AA or anything? It is wonderful that he is getting sober, despite the demons he is fighting right now, but... Al-Anon is for your recovery. This is a family disease and effects everyone.

Remember this, You didn't cause this, you can't control this and you can't cure it. He may say all sorts of things about how this was all your fault... but it's not. If he relapses he may blame something you did or said for it... but the blame is not yours. As he trys to cure himself he may say many things that don't make sense... and they are just that, nonsense.

The only person you can do anything about is you, and this group is here to help you do that.

Try the online chat meetings, there is a link on this page.

Above all... Take care of you! That is your only responability.

nycbt · ~*Service Worker*~

Welcome to MIP. You are not alone. There a lot of people who understand.

World Service Organization Website –

WWW.al-anon.alateen.org

Phone number is 1-888-425-2666

Alanon meetings 800-351-9996

Alanon literature Worldwide 888-425-2666

Alanon meeting info. 800-433-7266 AA info.

Chat room is open 24/7 there here the link to www.mipchat.net or http://www.12stepforums.net/chatroom2.html

Here are some things that have helped me since in the program.

Go face to face meeting & online meeting.
post on the board here on the site. I have gotten a lot of good feed back.

· Set support system. people do not judge. You need someone who can go for coffee on a bad day, or pick up a phone and call when in trouble. The support is what is important when you first this program.

Have a sponsor. Someone work one on one with you.

You don’t have to do this the minute u come to the program but I suggest that u do it when u can. It help.

Meeting schedule: meetings are in here and run approximately 90 minutes from: Monday-Friday, 9 am and 9 pm EST, Saturday: 10 am and 9 pm EST, Sunday: 10 am and 7 pm EST. Topics are selected by participants at meeting time. UK +5 hours, central -1 hour, mountain -2 hours, pacific -3 hours. Open chat all other times.

brownie · Member

Thanks for that. I have now realised I have to look after myself. I can only be there to try help him. He really had to help himself. I told him I cannot tell him what to do in life.

The material presented here is not Al-Anon Conference Approved Literature. It is a method to exchange information, ideas, feelings, problems and solutions on a personal level.