"... cause some are sicker than others."
"I always thought that if I could be free then I would be happy but, you know, the Al-Anon Program has taught me how to be free...it's an inside job and it doesn't matter that much what 'they' say or 'they' do, it's all inside. And when we have the ability to have some answers in this program, then we're not in bondage anymore. I found, for me, that I was dependent as long as I didn't have answers."
"Is your soul dry from desolation, wrinkled from worry, itchy from alcoholic irritation, rough from resentments?
Try Oil of Al-Anon."
"It is very arbitrary the rules I choose to follow."
"My story is a little different from a lot of Al-Anons.
I didn't come here to get anybody sober.
I was completely and totally isolated and alone except for one sober member of Alcoholics Anonymous.
He did not live in my town. He had been my counselor and he was my line to sanity.
I came to you because every day I was standing in front of the mirror and saying
'I have it in me to hold it together - today.'"
"We had no friends and no one walked into that house."
"It was getting worse but I was starting to feel better."
"I was a desperate women on a relentless search for love and I searched for it in all the wrong places."
"I got real good at playing games."
"I was like a chameleon on a plaid skirt."
"Trying to keep an alcoholic sober is like trying to teach a pig to sing.
It doesn't work and it just annoys the pig."
"When I got involved in service, it stared to change my life."
"I came primed and ready when I met 'her'."
"I had this cellophane wall that I couldn't reach out and you couldn't reach in."
"I have to remember for me, that I am my own qualifier for Al-Anon.
I marry alcoholic women because I qualify for Al-Anon.
I don't qualify for Al-Anon because I marry alcoholic women."