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I first went to an Alcoholics Anonymous 12 step meeting 2 months ago. I was pretty beaten down by that point, having gone on a 3 month continuous bender after my wife left me, and was ready to settle down a little and start to piece my life back together. Well, my Alcoholics Anonymous meeting was miraculous – just a couple of months and I'm cured, honest. At alcoholics meetings, they will tell you that this is a lifetime addiction and that you are always a “recovering alcoholic.” I know. I've been through the Alcoholics Anonymous 12 step program at least a couple of times already, which almost makes me an expert on it. I think that Alcoholics Anonymous really does do a lot to help people – I mean they cured me – but this part of their philosophy is, if you will pardon the expression, a bunch of hokum.

I simply do not need to spend the rest of my life going to Alcoholics Anonymous meetings, and I am much too interesting to never have a single drink again. I know people who do not drink. They are boring, very boring. I am no teetotaler to spend my life away from whiskey. I love a drink, and thanks to two solid months of Alcoholics Anonymous meetings, I think that I could handle one right now. But my Alcoholics Anonymous support group made me promise them that I would at least wait another month before making what they described as “the biggest mistake of my life.”

I know that they are only doing what they think is the right thing for me, but gee whiz. These people take themselves just a little bit too seriously if you ask me. I mean, won't I know better than anyone else, even better than Alcoholics Anonymous, when I am ready to have another drink and when I am not. I mean, it was me who came willingly to the meeting in the first place after all.

My advice is, if you are going to Alcoholics Anonymous, do not tell them when you have reached the point that I have reached – the point where you are ready to start drinking responsibly. They are simply trained not to believe you. It is almost like brainwashing in a way. For many people, the Alcoholics Anonymous group ideal of never drinking again might work, but for me it is not necessary.

Do you see yourself in the statements above? If so, you very likely have a problem. The one thing that the drug addict or alcoholic addict cannot admit is that they have a problem. Everyone sees it but them, and when people mention it to them, even people who care about them like Alcoholic Anonymous or even their spouse, they toss the comment aside, feeling like they have it under control. But they do NOT have it under control, and part of the disease, part of the addiction, is not having the ability to recognize when you have a problem.

If you are able to recognize that you have a problem, you are a significant ways towards getting the problem resolved. The people at Alcoholics Anonymous can and do help. They won't tell you how to life your life from one moment to the next, but they will help you understand that you are accountable to YOU, and that part of that accountability is being able to stop lying to yourself and admit you have a problem that is in dire need of being resolved.

And it will NOT resolve itself ... unless you consider that injuring or killing someone else and/or doing serious injury to yourself, and spending years in prison as a result means it has resolved itself.

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