Funny speaker. Ajit is not sure when he came to Al-anon (circa 1980) but knows exactly when his qualifier came into AA.
Born in India and moved to Detroit. A drinking woman made his evening quicker and cheaper.
Married a polish alcoholic waitress working her way through nursing school.Her bathroom became her bar.
If its a behavior he tends to obsess on it. "We move in the direction of our dominant thoughts".
In the beginning he talked a good program but then got back to the fundamentals.
His response to alcoholism is his problem not alcoholism.
His wife discovered she had been molested as a child and the intimacy was gone.
After 17 years she filed for divorce and he hired a "barracuda" lawyer but sponsorship and the program came to the rescue.
(53 min) (24.5 MB) (id#91)