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Rhiannon12866

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6. Sounds like a scary situation, I'm wondering if Alanon could help?
Wed Dec 27, 2023, 05:28 AM
Dec 2023

I've been in AA since 2008 and in the beginning I went to Alanon as well with my AA sponsor, since that's where she started. It's for family and friends of alcoholics, but the longer I'm in AA the more people I meet are cross addicted. One of my good AA friends had the same problem. Both she and her husband got sober after joining AA, but she couldn't live with him anymore since he continued abusing his prescriptions. And they have a daughter, a teenager at the time, and when my friend went back to school the poor girl was scared to death if she found her father passed out on the floor or if he drove when she knew he shouldn't. He totaled their car and his mother's. Here's a link to Alanon meetings if you'd like to give them a try, I found them very welcoming and supportive.

https://al-anon.org/al-anon-meetings/find-an-al-anon-meeting/

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