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<blockquote data-quote="hearts and roses" data-source="post: 275796" data-attributes="member: 2211"><p><span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS'"><span style="font-size: 12px"><span style="color: indigo">Thanks Busy - your opinion definitely counts. In fact, your perspective may be best because it isn't jaded? lol.</span></span></span></p><p> </p><p><span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS'"><span style="font-size: 12px"><span style="color: indigo">My H has not had any alcohol in over 2 years. But he never worked on the reasons why or how he came to be an alcoholic. I think (based on some of what he's shared) that while he can relate to a lot of what is being shared at the AA meetings, he just doesn't feel like he's still in the 'muck of it' in relation to really having to fight off the urge to drink. I suggested a "Step meeting" to him because that may take him out of the story-telling type of environment at the meeting he has gone to and may instead give him something to engage in on a weekly basis. He said he 'read the steps already and knows what they are about'. IOW, he dismissed this suggestion, as he does every other.</span></span></span></p><p> </p><p><span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS'"><span style="font-size: 12px"><span style="color: indigo">It's as if you just can't tell him anything new because he think he already knows. He doesn't verbally become defensive about it, but he sort of digs in his heels and gives explanations as to why it wouldn't work for him - without even first at least checking it out. I think maybe it seems to textbook to him, I don't know. He rarely lets anyone inside his head except when he's exploding.</span></span></span></p><p> </p><p><span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS'"><span style="font-size: 12px"><span style="color: indigo">Anyway, I think I should get my rear end back to an al-anon meeting. I hate going to them, but I will check it out again.</span></span></span></p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="hearts and roses, post: 275796, member: 2211"] [FONT=Comic Sans MS][SIZE=3][COLOR=indigo]Thanks Busy - your opinion definitely counts. In fact, your perspective may be best because it isn't jaded? lol.[/COLOR][/SIZE][/FONT] [FONT=Comic Sans MS][SIZE=3][COLOR=indigo][/COLOR][/SIZE][/FONT] [FONT=Comic Sans MS][SIZE=3][COLOR=indigo]My H has not had any alcohol in over 2 years. But he never worked on the reasons why or how he came to be an alcoholic. I think (based on some of what he's shared) that while he can relate to a lot of what is being shared at the AA meetings, he just doesn't feel like he's still in the 'muck of it' in relation to really having to fight off the urge to drink. I suggested a "Step meeting" to him because that may take him out of the story-telling type of environment at the meeting he has gone to and may instead give him something to engage in on a weekly basis. He said he 'read the steps already and knows what they are about'. IOW, he dismissed this suggestion, as he does every other.[/COLOR][/SIZE][/FONT] [FONT=Comic Sans MS][SIZE=3][COLOR=indigo][/COLOR][/SIZE][/FONT] [FONT=Comic Sans MS][SIZE=3][COLOR=indigo]It's as if you just can't tell him anything new because he think he already knows. He doesn't verbally become defensive about it, but he sort of digs in his heels and gives explanations as to why it wouldn't work for him - without even first at least checking it out. I think maybe it seems to textbook to him, I don't know. He rarely lets anyone inside his head except when he's exploding.[/COLOR][/SIZE][/FONT] [FONT=Comic Sans MS][SIZE=3][COLOR=indigo][/COLOR][/SIZE][/FONT] [FONT=Comic Sans MS][SIZE=3][COLOR=indigo]Anyway, I think I should get my rear end back to an al-anon meeting. I hate going to them, but I will check it out again.[/COLOR][/SIZE][/FONT] [/QUOTE]
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