"My mom said I came out of my room when I was 15."
"Well I learned real quick what the rules in an alcoholic home were: you don't talk, you don't trust and you don't feel and another rule in my home was - you don't need anything."
"My mom said I came out of my room when I was 15."
"Well I learned real quick what the rules in an alcoholic home were: you don't talk, you don't trust and you don't feel and another rule in my home was - you don't need anything."
"I was a basket case of negative emotions...I was in a spiritual coma."
"My Higher Power can do for me what I cannot do for myself."
"The effects of my alcoholism have shown up in this way:
I am a recovering co-dependent,
I am a recovering adult child,
I am a recovering compulsive overeater,
I am a recovering person who is addicted to relationships, and
I am also in a very special group that I am going to talk briefly about which is S-Anon and that is for people who have been in relationships or are in relationships with sexual addicts."
"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."
"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."
"I was a desperate women on a relentless search for love and I searched for it in all the wrong places."
"It's alright."
"All I wanted to do was kill him."
"Robert "Bob" "Smitty" Ripley Smith II, born June 5, 1918, the last eyewitness of the start of Alcoholics Anonymous, died of congestive heart failure at St. Francis Hospital in Memphis, Tenn. about 5 o'clock Thursday evening, April 22, 2004.
"Smitty," his nickname in youth and later at recovery gatherings worldwide, was the only son of Anne Smith and Akron, Ohio physician Dr. Bob Smith. Then teenagers, young Bob and sister Sue were there on Mother's day 1935 when his father, Dr. Bob, met one time New York stock analyst Bill Wilson for the first time."