"I came into Al-Anon and then found my story."
"I came into Al-Anon and then found my story."
"That is not a bald spot on my head. It is a solar panel for a sex machine."
"I have not found it necessary to manage, manipulate or control since I came into the Program..."
"Am I weller than some by coming all those years or am I sicker than some? I just still feel the need.... I am cultivating the young ones because you can still drive and I need you!"
"Just being married to an alcoholic doesn't make me an Al-Anon...Just sitting in a garage doesn't make you a car."
"I was a basket case of negative emotions...I was in a spiritual coma."
"I was always fascinated by kids who got into trouble...If Saddam Hussein had been an exchange student, I would have been attracted to him."
"I needed to be better than you so I could feel equal to you."
"My husband says I was a born Al-Anon waiting for an alcoholic to happen."
"Al-Anons talk longer than AAs because we remember more."
"I am not a public speaker. I may be more like a cross-eyed javelin thrower who doesn't set any records but he sure keeps the audience alert."
"I have a disease of perception and what I heard was, 'I'm no damn good. I'm the stupid one in the family.'"
"I am a sponge for other people's emotions."
"And elephants do what elephants do."
The Al-Anon spends half a life cleaning up after the elephant. Then the alcoholic comes into the rooms and laughs at the mess they made of "their" lives.
Detachment says in part,
"Elephants do what they do but not to poop on me...but I can love them right where they are..and I didn't have to fix him."
"I quit saying I was sorry so much because that is not my name."
"Would I stand on the seashore and, like King Canute of the ancient legend, try to command the tides? It is just as fruitless to try to control the alcoholic. Yet this is what I would be doing in attempting to force sobriety by my will-power."