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Jilly_in_VA

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4. You can damn AA all you want

Reply to Archae (Original post)

Wed Jun 11, 2025, 11:27 AM

Jun 11

I know a lot of people who have been sober for years through it. I have nothing but good to say for its auxiliary, Al-Anon. It helped me work on myself as a co-dependent until I could stand on my own two feet and leave a marriage in which my late ex would not get sober by any means. So whatever.

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Crooks and Liars is celebrating the founding of Alcoholics Anonymous, I'm not. [View all] Archae Jun 11 OP

Sober Since Oct 2023!! NO AA! FirstLight Jun 11 #1

My opinions also. Archae Jun 11 #2

They prime people for relapse IbogaProject Jun 11 #3

You can damn AA all you want Jilly_in_VA Jun 11 #4

Sure, Hornedfrog2000 Jun 11 #10

That's my biggest gripe also. Archae Jun 11 #13

You are 100% right, but folks are gonna argue with you on this obamanut2012 Jun 11 #5

So I've noticed already. Archae Jun 11 #6

They helped me for a time to get my footing dlilafae Jun 11 #7

You've had a strange obsession with this. Tommy Carcetti Jun 11 #8

I am an Army-trained drug and alcohol NCO jmowreader Jun 11 #9

The problem with AA is they are not science based Mosby Jun 11 #11

AA Provides Human Contact Starbeach Jun 11 #12

My son got a DUI and I had to go to an AA meeting with him. spanone Jun 11 #14

Exactly. AA is founded on a fundamentalist Christian basis. Archae Jun 11 #15

I had no idea at the time. spanone Jun 11 #16