"... 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."
"Look for that in another which is untouched by the disease."
"Am I wasting God's Grace?"
"I came into Al-Anon and then found my story."
"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."
"And I was very much at dis-ease."
"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.'"
"I was willing to go to any lengths to marry an alcoholic."
"The Atlanta Roundup has not always been Al-Anon friendly but it is Al-Anon friendly today."
"I am of the theory that when it walks like a duck and quacks like a duck, it's a duck."
"I stand before you a reformed husband beater. I have been kicked out of more bars never having had a drink for attacking my husband."
"mean Irish drunks"
"Everything that came up we just made jokes about it."
"Jesus-Others-Yourself"
"It was as though somebody gave me a set of skis and a parker with a hood and gloves and snow goggles and then dropped me in the desert."