"If your alcoholics and you're in the room - thank you. You're my idea of an open bar...I'll have a double shot of that one."
"If your alcoholics and you're in the room - thank you. You're my idea of an open bar...I'll have a double shot of that one."
"And I was very much at dis-ease."
"I was never happy at any point in my life. If it was Saturday, I wished it was Monday. If it were winter, I wanted summer to come and if it was night I wished it was day. It was always going to be better at some other time or when something else happened. That's changed for me today and I am very grateful. I depended on other people to make me happy and when I wasn't happy it was someone else's fault."
"We had no friends and no one walked into that house."
"It was getting worse but I was starting to feel better."
"Our Father which art in heaven, how'd you know my name?"
"I qualify for the program of Al-Anon because my husband tells me he's an alcoholic and I believe him! I have not always believed everything he's told me."
"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.'"
"... 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."